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Dollar General is probably one of the larger success stories in recent history for brick and mortar marketing......even though most are made of tin.
They found a niche and worked like hell to make it happen, Hats off to um. One of the few that have hurt Walmart.
So far Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming have remained immune. I know a contractor that puts up a lot of their buildings in this area. He told me DG's business model was catching Walmart customers before they could get to Walmart.
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Gregintenn: Well there are lots of them in the Rocky Mountain west - I seldom leave here anymore so not sure about other parts of the country. Imagine my surprise when a while back I stop in at my local "Dollar Store" to buy my monthly small bag of Australian Black Licorice and the counterlady wanted 25 more cents for it! I guess they should be called Dollar & A Quarter Stores now? Times, they are a changin. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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I had to take an emergent dump once while at Dollar General. It was terrifying. My sack was kissing the terlot water, someone kept jiggling the door handle rushing me. Had to wipe my hind end with some of those recycled brown paper towels. Should have just crapped behind their dumpster.
Still a great store.
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I had to take an emergent dump once while at Dollar General. It was terrifying. My sack was kissing the terlot water, someone kept jiggling the door handle rushing me. Had to wipe my hind end with some of those recycled brown paper towels. Should have just crapped behind their dumpster.
Still a great store. Around here you gotta ask for the key..,. Guess too many folks leaving loggerheads in the bowl and bouncing
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the communists running my county have spent $720,000 so far trying to ban a Doller General from building a store in a tiny local rural community. They have no store of any kind and the folks have to drive a minimum of a 30 mile round trip to buy a loaf of bread. The county commissars feel the store does not fit the 'theme' of the community.
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Dollar General is probably one of the larger success stories in recent history for brick and mortar marketing......even though most are made of tin.
They found a niche and worked like hell to make it happen, Hats off to um. One of the few that have hurt Walmart.
So far Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming have remained immune. I know a contractor that puts up a lot of their buildings in this area. He told me DG's business model was catching Walmart customers before they could get to Walmart. I've read in some business journals where it's said that DG has taken 12 to 15% of WMs business. That's a staggering number.
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I had to take an emergent dump once while at Dollar General. It was terrifying. My sack was kissing the terlot water, someone kept jiggling the door handle rushing me. Had to wipe my hind end with some of those recycled brown paper towels. Should have just crapped behind their dumpster.
Still a great store. Around here you gotta ask for the key..,. Guess too many folks leaving loggerheads in the bowl and bouncing Oh yea same here. Had a chunk of 2x4 about 1ft long attached to it. All wrapped up in hot pink duct tape.
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I had to take an emergent dump once while at Dollar General. It was terrifying. My sack was kissing the terlot water, someone kept jiggling the door handle rushing me. Had to wipe my hind end with some of those recycled brown paper towels. Should have just crapped behind their dumpster.
Still a great store. Around here you gotta ask for the key..,. Guess too many folks leaving loggerheads in the bowl and bouncing Oh yea same here. Had a chunk of 2x4 about 1ft long attached to it. All wrapped up in hot pink duct tape. When I was a kid, the little store up the road from us had a bathroom key chained to an old shock absorber from a dump truck. You didn’t accidentally misplace that. You had to be fairly fit just to get it from the counter to the restroom and back.
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Dollar Generals sub in for the word strippers. I need to learn photo shop skillz....
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I think there are now over a million of these damned things in Tennessee alone. Are they everywhere, or just a southern thing?
I live out in the sticks, and there are five of them within a five mile radius of here. Yeah, they were up and down Virginia's eastern shore, about every few miles, either Family Dollar or Dollar General, doesn't seem like a nickel's difference between them. I don't like them because they are displacing similar but family owned local stores, some that sold less variety, some, like our little town grocery store, had more variety, including produce and a real meat department and a deli with some of the best fried chicken on the shore. Yeah, it's prices were a little higher but it saved a trip to the next town often times, whereas Dollar General didn't have produce or meat. Here in my new home, in middle TN, there's one 3 miles from us, another about two more miles towards town and another, bigger version a couple miles in the other direction. I guess it must be okay though, we the lemmings of America have voted, and just like WalMart, they won...
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My biggest problem with Dolla Genrul is they are too cheap to hire enough people to stock their shelves.
Every one of them around here has boxes of stuff setting in the aisles, and you have to climb over a pallet of shìt to get to the pop tarts.
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Ours just went to $1.25 store.
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I think there are now over a million of these damned things in Tennessee alone. Are they everywhere, or just a southern thing?
I live out in the sticks, and there are five of them within a five mile radius of here. They and the other "Dollar" stuff were supreme investment in the day.... I invested in these stores' stocks 15 years ago, Wish I put more money in Yep.
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All the local mom & pop owned/operated grocery stores closed a good while before Dollar General and long before Family Dollar built here. The only one that closed after DG located here was actually a regional chain owned store and operated by hired help. Their prices simply kept getting higher and higher to the point locals started buying much of their daily incidental needs at DG and did serious grocery shopping at big national chain grocery stores in larger nearby towns.
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All the local mom & pop owned/operated grocery stores closed a good while before Dollar General and long before Family Dollar built here. The only one that closed after DG located here was actually a regional chain owned store and operated by hired help. Their prices simply kept getting higher and higher to the point locals started buying much of their daily incidental needs at DG and did serious grocery shopping at big national chain grocery stores in larger nearby towns.
Places they are putting the DG’s around here never had a nana n’ pop store. Unless it was 50 years ago.... Whatever triggers it - road traffic volume, ppl per square mile or a dart thrown at a map. Works. Not sure I’ve seen a former DG. Only an empty building cause the moved to build a larger location.
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My biggest problem with Dolla Genrul is they are too cheap to hire enough people to stock their shelves.
Every one of them around here has boxes of stuff setting in the aisles, and you have to climb over a pallet of shìt to get to the pop tarts. ........... Last year when they couldn't find enough people to work; there was one around here that had so much of a problem with stocking shelves that they actually cut back on the hours they were open. It was getting to be ridiculous with all the stuff piled up in the aisles, and one person running back & forth between the register and the shelf stocking.
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I love Dollar General. One about 3 1/2 miles up the road. I dislike going to town especially Walmart. ^^^This^^^ Although the closest to me is 12 Miles. And they have better prices on most things than Walmart or the Grocery Store. Fugg Walmart.
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My biggest problem with Dolla Genrul is they are too cheap to hire enough people to stock their shelves.
Every one of them around here has boxes of stuff setting in the aisles, and you have to climb over a pallet of shìt to get to the pop tarts. ........... Last year when they couldn't find enough people to work; there was one around here that had so much of a problem with stocking shelves that they actually cut back on the hours they were open. It was getting to be ridiculous with all the stuff piled up in the aisles, and one person running back & forth between the register and the shelf stocking. Yeah That's the " everybody does everything all the time " business plan. Used to be there were full time cashiers that only checked customers, and full time stockers that only stocked shelves, and everything got done instead of the half a$$ed way things get done now. Semi-related to the old plan of hiring on merit and experience and an affinity for the job instead of someone that a HR department hires
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We have a couple varieties of dollar stores everywhere. I've spent practically nothing in them. I work near a Meijers and a Walmart so I'm near the big box stores 6 out of 7 days. The owners of a local party store wanted to sell their place but was a bit late as a Dollar General opened a 1/2 mile away. That had to hurt.
What I've noticed is none of them sell gasoline. That might get me to stop in.
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