Posted on 12/07/2021 8:04:59 AM PST by Red Badger
Getting more bang for your buck used to be the mantra of dollar store shoppers everywhere, but times are changing - and prices are rising.
As consumers continue to contend with escalating prices for food, clothing and other items thanks to inflation, discount retail chains like dollar stores are rethinking their pricing strategies. Dollar Tree announced last month that it will be boosting prices to $1.25 for most of its products. And now Dollar General is looking to roll out more of its Popshelf stores, where most items cost $5 or less.
Dollar General said Thursday that it anticipates nearly tripling the number of Popshelf stores it has by next year and plans to have about 1,000 Popshelf locations by the end of fiscal 2025.
Popshelf stores offer items such as beauty and seasonal products, toys, home décor and arts and crafts. Dollar General initially unveiled the Popshelf concept in October 2020. By May, the Goodlettsville, Tennessee-based company had plans to open approximately 25 Dollar General and Popshelf combination stores, and up to an additional 50 Popshelf locations in various markets by the end of fiscal 2021. There are currently 36 Popshelf stores open, according to the Popshelf website.
Yay, China!!!
They should call them Brandon Stores to celebrate the guy who made the Dollar Stores obsolete.
Actually, Dollar General is one of the better low-end retailers out there. Check the labels. They have a lot of stuff made in India, Egypt and that emerging third world country of Canada.
NO MORE Dollar Generals!!!! There is not a corner in n Florida that there is nit a DG.
You like saying popshelf, don’t you?
or Family Dollar stores..................
LOL! What now?..................
I use Dollar General for mi-month milk shopping.
ALL the staff there are very friendly, and the store is clean-—only have empty boxes in aisles sometimes.
They sell LOCAL dairy milk, which is my favorite, also.
MID-MONTH !!!!!
Just wait until they start opening Starbucks in them.
Please no! A DG/SB one-stop is the thing nightmares are made of.
“Just wait until they start opening Starbucks in them.”
Dollar Starbucks does not compute.
They are the country farmers WalMart. Around here 12 miles to a grocery store..2 miles to a Dollar General..But they don’t sell shotgun shells here...yet !!! Maybe someday..
Try their store brand batteries! They’re cheap, last a long time and I’ve never had a leaker.
Remember the Six Dollar Burger at Carl’s Jr. that was supposed to be the equivalent of an expensive burger in a fancy restaurant but cost only half the price? With the actual price having soared past six dollars, they were renamed Thick Burgers. Thanks, Brandon!
Alas! our Hardee’s (Carl’s east coast name) went out of business during the pandemic last year..........................
This is a video of a Dollar General meeting where they’re trying to figure out how many stores they have. Pretty funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIqC5y1zm-4
Just count all the Family Dollar Stores and multiply by 2.................
“Dollar Starbucks does not compute.”
Just open a competing franchise called “Starbuck” coffee.
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