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.

A poor Hillbilly and his money are soon.....

Everywhere in Piedmont NC as well.

Do they exist in California?

6 within 20 miles of me, they stay busy too. The bastards pull out in front of me all the time and drive 35 mph in a 75 zone.

Do you mean dollar store or dollar general ? Only one dollar store here, dollar general stores popping up like gophers!

I’d have a hard time guessing how many are within 20 miles of here. Probably 12-15?

Yes and my Latinabilly wife is a regular depositor.

Yep they are every where, got one at the end of the road 3/4 mile at the 4 lane and they just opened another one 3 miles up the road.

Yeah. Dollar General. Headquartered right here in middle Tennessee.

Sadly enough, you’re correct.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Wallace.

Plenty in Texas.

they do

For those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s like Walmart has a smaller, yellow, special needs brother.

They are all over in these parts.

One stop shopping in the middle of nowhere.

They seem to have replaced the old country store. I really miss those.

Does your conscience bother you?

Keep your eyes open in them, Last year I lucked into the Golden Harvest rings and lids for $2.75 per box.

Fugger got me in a cabin in Alaska. The surgeons were going to amputate my lower leg after the ABs and steroid creams didnt stop it from trying to turn to Gangrene. Dr R Bartlett saved it with iodine gas TX I described to Dr Doc Rocket on the Fire iirc who ended up saving someone's limb with that TX years later.
Darn I miss Doc Rocket on the Fire but to hell with him I guess. He screwed up once like Trump and Cruz did so he was fired.
He helped a lot of folks with health concerns on the fire but the fugger just wasnt as perfect as us.

Too bad, our loss.

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Best prices on Natty Daddy and Vienna sausages

The Edy’s ice cream is a rip off though. And dont buy 9volt batts there. Shewwww!!!

Jag done got in sauce.

😂😂😂

They’ll have keystone light 15 pk for $6.79. 🤭🤭

Those single pack clover valley soft bake $.50 cookies are off. The. Chain.

On almost every corner here!
99Only is the only one near here worth going to, they have fruit and vegetables and bread delivered daily.

Slow ur roll Flowrider. Wrong thread me thinks.

Even my relatives from Kentucky say we're really out in the sticks, but there are 2 dollar stores within 10 miles and several more within 20 miles. Unfortunately, none of these dollar stores sell gas.

I have no conscience.

I just read where zoning has approved another Dollar General in our county. That makes 4, along with a Family Dollar for 5 total. I thought WTF?

Then the more I thought about it... bring em on. No, I don't want one next door or across the road. But up the road would be just fine with me, they're handy & usually well stocked. In these days of uncertainty & real or imagined shortages, the more the merrier. Simply more supplies to draw off of. One of them I know of had the entire back wall stacked to the ceiling with toilet paper during the time when there was supposed to be a shortage.

Things that don't let monopolies like WM happen, are good.

I have seen the Dollar General on the Oregon Coast. But never in Eastern Oregon or Idaho. Until they just one last year about ten miles South of Ontario. The Family Dollar store is pretty equivalent, and is prevalent in the region.

The Honk's Dollar Stores all closed up around here. They were actual "Everything One Dollar". But we still have bunches of "Dollar Tree".

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Sorry rong thread. Dayom big fingers and such.

I love Dollar General. One about 3 1/2 miles up the road. I dislike going to town especially Walmart.

Have had one in each of our 2 bigger towns forever.
Old stores in town, different from most now days.

5 or 6 built in the county in the last 20 years, most in the last 5.

Good stores, but rarely shop them. Wife does, cleaning supplies and paper goods are
the cheapest you can find the.

Darn shame about country stores, but those died out here a long time ago.

DG out Walmarted Wal-Mart. They built stores where there was nothing.
Just like how Wal-Mart started.
Except theirs are small and pepper the countryside.
Convenient, they have to be hurting the big Wally World stores in Nowheresville
that folks used to drive 10s of miles to get to. Now, they can easy do much of their
shopping close to home.


Hooray for DG!

At least there won’t be a shortage of cheap Chinese [bleep] and I figure most are money laundering operations how can so many stay in business making pennies on each item

china dime store rip off. never going to help the cause. If we keep buying this crap we will never get back to america products,

Yeah, like $0.87, even for smoked

No Dollar Generals in this state but we have Family Dollars on every corner.

To hell with Family Dollar. Their customers arent worth them letting patrons take a crap there.

We have a few of those too.

The dollar stores here don't sell alcohol, because we are more pure and righteous than you heathens down there in the Land of the Philistenes.

You can buy oxycontin 80s from the guy out back by the dumpsters though

Haha.

Our county just went wet about 2-3 yrs ago.

All the Baptist were against it of course.

Eternal damnation and all that jazz.

They were going the next county over to get their booze.

😂😂

They and the other "Dollar" stuff were supreme investment in the day....

more of a mid east, SE coast , mid west thing it seems

I invested in these stores' stocks 15 years ago, Wish I put more money in

Three of them within 10 minutes driving of me, and the fourth one isn't that far off. I had a great uncle who made a lot of money playing the stock market, and Dollar General was his favorite stock. At one time, he had so much of it, that he was considered a major stockholder and was always going to meetings. I wish I'd listened to him when he advised me to buy that stock about 30 years ago.

They are spread far and wide for the folks who have to budget their gas purchases and can't afford the Tesla that Queyor Pete directed them to buy.

Just recently did the plumbing on a new build here in our county.
During construction,someone from the leasing company said they want one in every town.
So far they're pretty close to achieving that goal.
And ours do sell beer.

Plenty in southeast to central Texas. Dollar stores, family general, dollar general. We are ate up with them. Have one across the highway from us.

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.

There all. Over the place here in Michigan.

We got 'em all over here in Michigan. Granddaughters think Papa is the greatest when I whip out a 5 for each of them and we go to the Dollar Store.

We have plenty of Dollar Generals, Family Dollars and Everything's a Dollar here in Wyoming. We didn't escape.

DG's seem to pop up like mushrooms here in south Jersey. It's almost like you can drive past an empty lot one day, and a week later there sits another DG.

We liked Fred’s. They no longer exist; at least not locally.

We have a Dollar General and a Family Dollar in our little town of about 3,000.
They're popping up in all the small towns around here. Pretty smart, I think. Especially now that people don't want to drive out of town to go to Walmart and such.

they're popping up all over here in PA. you are never far from a can of vienna sausages and a 750ml mt dew around here.

That immunity is about to end in my part of North Idaho...............

We miss Alco, and the Pamida stores.

Popping up all over in CA.

I'm thinking brown recluse thread?

Went in one once.....didn't like it.


Fugging rip off.


Casinos, pawn shops and Dollar Stores are a dying canary.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Dollar Generals sub in for the word strippers.
I need to learn photo shop skillz....

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...

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.

Ours just went to $1.25 store.

Bb

Yep.

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.

They have their place.

........... 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.

^^^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.

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

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.

Unless I drive a minimum of 34 miles round trip DG is all we have. It's right up the road and employs quite a few of the locals. Good deal for our little corner of the world. They didn't put anybody out of business because we didn't have anything.

Around here I see Dollar General, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree. There must be some rule in place where if one opens up then at least one of the other two must open up within a quarter mile.

All over middle GA. They do serve rural areas well, but also seem to be over represented in the cities.

DG built a new, real nice, big, well organized store with a big paved parking lot about 8 miles from me but the closest to any kind of group human settlement is a couple of little rural 'crossroad' communities 3 - 4 miles away from it. It is located near a interstate exit / on ramps, though, so maybe that may influence their location choice.

Some DG stores are stocking basic fresh fruit and vegetables now, too.

Dollar Tree bought out Family Dollar a few years back so both are under the same ownership now. DT closed some FD stores, opened some new ones and made others combo DT / FD stores.

Beside those we also have something called Mighty Dollar here. It's basically a lower class Dollar Tree. If you can imagine that.

Ain’t going in a Famibly Dolla.

They gots the rats.....

still got the $1 ribeyes that slummy loves?

Dollar Tree is 1.25 now, thanks Joe. They still have what they claim is beef and seafood in their coolers, but I've never been brave enough to try any.

One day when I want to laugh death in the face, I will try their seafood burritos.

Hell no! They haven’t had those in a while now. They made a damn good sandwich.

Just off the top of my head, there are five DG stores within 10 miles of me, and everytime I take a ride in the country roads around here, they are putting in a new one. That doesn't take into account Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores, either, just the DGs.

The Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores are all in town. You’ll find a Dollar General out in the middle of nowhere.

"Emergent"? As in the turdles head was sticking out?

#peekaboo

There is a dollar general about ten miles from here but is usually closed because they can't find anyone to work there

Walmart destroyed small town American. Dollar General has/will destroy every mom and pop rural convenience store in America. Amazon will ship the coffin.

That’s said over and over.

In these parts they are putting DG’s “out in the woods”.

Rural areas that don’t have any stores.

I don't know about anywhere else, but locally DG has had problems staffing the stores with enough workers to keep them open. One particular store was closed as much as it was open for a long period of time because no one showed up for work.

Odds are in the favor of the job seekers today.
Lot's of job openings with few unemployed.

Many businesses are suffering the same, no one is applying to fill the needed slots.
Numerous fast food restaurants, especially the new ones just opening can only get enough help to operate their drive-throughs.

One thing they all have in common is low wage and low allowable hours to avoid medical insurance mandates.

Dollar General is becoming a serious competitor to Walmart in basic daily grocery, household, personal hygiene needs, over the counter meds and even beer now, too, in both store brand and name brand products.

For example, the Dollar General Market store in a nearby town sells store brand DG milk for $2.15 a gallon, beating the local Super Walmart's store brand milk price by enough to cause many people shop there instead of Walmart. DG runs sales on at least one name brand soda -- Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc. -- three 12 packs for between anywhere from $9 to $12. Plus -- spend $25 or more (pre state sales tax) total on Saturday at DG -- $5.00 off total at check out.

I mean who in their right mind want's to deal with Walmart crowds, searching all over the store trying to find where they moved what you are looking for, unmanned checkout lanes, hunting a parking spot, when all they want is a few ordinary everyday needs or wants when they can whip into a nearby DG and be in and out with minimal hassle and back on the road in just a few minutes?

Great for a weekly armed robbery news story too.


Got one down the street from the hunting property, nice to go in and grab batteries for a cam or feeder within a few minutes.

I cant say I ever been in one but there are quite a few around Southwest Florida.

Nothing like everyone in the store watching you do the "Walk of Shame" on the way to the can. You may as well of had a newspaper rolled up under your arm too.

DG could seal the deal with boomers if they had a Pharmacy.


And gas pumps.

And ammo 😂

I only go to watch the celebrities walking in and out.

The Dollar Market in Scottsville, KY sells a gallon of milk for $1.75! They are like $4.00 here in Tennessee. Does Kentucky offer a subsidy on milk or something? No way someone isn't losing money on that deal.

I have 3 of their stores within a 6 mile radius and if you expand that to 10 mile radius, I can add at least 3 more that I can think of

I bet I stop at the local Squalor General at least five time a week. Beats the hell out of going to Walmart.

Out West, in the REAL Out West that is, we ain't got such a thing as that many.

Just one in town here.

Only one in about a 60 mile radius that I can think of, maybe even a bigger span than that.

Either your counties are too small back there or y'all gots too many damn folks back there.

Sheesh.

PS, not sure about the john in the Dollar Store, there's a nice one in the Grocery Outlet. I usually try to make it there. Don't like their Dyson hand dryer though, means there's no paper towel to use to open the door after some low life touched it.

No milk subsidy that I know of. Not all DG stores here in my area are pricing their milk that cheap -- just the ones competing with nearby Walmart and/or other big box grocery stores. Thinking it's what I believe is called a "loss leader" thing based on the assumption that very, very seldom do shoppers buy just the one thing they are after and then leave. Local Walmart was forced to start cutting their store brand milk price a few years ago after a Kroger owned discount grocery chain opened a new store and initially priced theirs at .99 cents a gallon.

I think Wally World packages up schite that won't sell and sends it to DG! 🤯

DG sells laundry detergent in smaller containers than WM, but the cost per ounce is like a third more at DG.
Place is a freaking rip off!

Don't do Dollar General, Family Dollar or Wally World except in extreme emergencies or dire need!

This is me. But I have a lot of options where I live as well as economically. I don't mean I am rich but I am single and dont consume much like a family might. I don't recall being in a Walmart locally here in 20 years. I did go to one in the small town where I have a hunting lease once last year. I have since found another option there for what I need so I doubt I will have to go in there again.

I don’t go to Dollar General to buy laundry detergent. That type of product IS gotten at Walmart and is usually gotten 5 jugs at a time. Probably keep a min of 4 or 5 on hand at all times.

Thing is Walmart is 23 miles away to the north and 15 traffic lights of horseshît and town fools to contend with it. Always hit Walmart like Normandy early in the morning and once a month so I dont have to deal with unwashed masses and subdivisionites.

There is a D-G apprx 5 miles south of me. It is set in a very rural setting with no other stores. Just an oasis of necessity. Just the drive there is peaceful. Cattle and tobacco country, rolling green hills, deer in fields, etc

Average purchase for me at a D-G is less than $10. Usually something like a gallon of milk, or some random, single, odd component needed for a recipe being thrown together.

So much better than having to drive to walmart and mingle with the ethnic cesspool.

Now one thing that does hose me off.

People that buy a whole damn cart full of stuff at D-G. JFC go to walmart. They always end up in front of me. With me standing there with a thing of yellow marshmallow Easter Peeps and a pint of chocolate milk.

Get the hell out of my D-G with your 40 cans of Kozy Kitten catfood and EBT monthly carb blowout.

The local DG market has 4 self checkouts….

The EeeBeeeTeeee cards must not work in those lanes. 😂


Im like you. I dunno if I’ve every spent more than $25 at a time in DG.

One D-G we have closer to town has a self checkout side. It’s in an old Fred’s building.

Anyway, I had to use that self checkout a few months back because my ice cream sandwiches were in danger of melting behind some old gal that was unloading a whole cart of some off-brand clearance shampoo. Probably some haint that runs a home beauty parlor in her living room.

Sheesh

Heck yeah.

I be using the DG knockoff Old Spice body wash.

😂😂😂

Makes sense, but Scottsville has neither a WalMart nor a big box grocery store.

One of them saved my bacon a couple of years ago. I shot a doe with my xbow just at dark, and there’s one on my way home where I bought bags of ice to pack her in. I was covered in blood and gore and sweating like a pig, but probably no worse off than some of their regulars.

I buy my gift-wrap stuff in one every year. Think it’s the cheapest place for that, and keeps me out of WhataMart.

Have you tried their C cell batteries?

They still sellthe ray-o-vac batteries with the Cats on them.

😂😂

Local small town DG with no nearby competition either, used to price their store brand milk at $ 1.99 a gallon at the cooler and at check out it rang up at $1.70. Was like this for years but just all of a sudden last year they increased it to over $3 a gallon. My guess is DG corporate 'bean counters' finally got around to checking that store's prices versus area competition.

LOL! A fellow I worked with read an article about a Dollar Store being robbed. He said “If you’re robbing a Dollar Store, you’re just practicing.”.

Dollar Tree is closer than Dollar General. Got both

Yep, the Dollar Tree is now a $1.25 Tree or higher.

Good place to work for a 17 year old southern girl who want's to be robbed and killed by Desariass for $100

We have one of those next to the Goodwill

Wrap all the shopping up in one bus stop.

That is funny

Everywhere here in south FL.