6. Products may be smaller
Dollar stores have lower prices simply because they have smaller products. Of course you’d want both a cheap price and a big box of waffles, but we can’t have them all, can we? That means you are not really saving too much money in the long run.
Because if you compare your everyday grocery store purchases to what you can get at the dollar store, the discounts might not add up to much, if anything at all. For example, if you pay $1 for 8.45 ounces of shower gel at the dollar store, you might get a bigger bottle at your local grocery store for $3 or $4. And it might be a better deal!
7. The dollar claim is misleading
Misleading? Well, even if the stores are called “Dollar Stores,” not every single item costs a dollar. A lot of people tend to believe that stocking up on supplies from these stores is actively helping them stay on budget. However, the price of most things in the store will increase from $1 to $1.25, according to a price increase announced by Dollar Tree, which owns and manages hundreds of discount stores across the U.S. Even if a quarter doesn’t mean that much, it can add up if your main goal is to keep your spending low.
Perhaps the chain grocery stores should take a look at their prices as they are driving the mass of customers to the Dollar stores…It seems the only place one can cut cost is here as you have a choice of where to shop…Plus the near empty shelves also is a factor…
There is nothing in the dollar General store for a dollar they need to change name upper dollar General store
I ONLY BUY CLEANING SUPPY
Thank God for the dollar store`s !!!!
I shop at 3 – yes, 3 – grocery stores regularly because the major grocer, Publix, changes to new products so often I can’t get what I want so I go elsewhere. I have to buy 24 cans at a time from Chewy because this area doesn’t get cat food regularly – but go to South Florida upscale neighborhoods and there you will find all the cat food you want – at inflated prices. This year my grocery bill has gone up at Publix by more than 30%. Inflation isn’t an excuse. The big stores are gouging us. No wonder we look for deals elsewhere.
dollar stores posted to be only a dollar not. $3.4.5. bs. i am a low income person i can’t afford hafe of the stuff. plus .25 added. crazy. why did they do that to people like us that can’t afford a lot of stuff. change it back to a dollar store or change the name to dollar and up.