Dollar General opening a new higher class store

[quote] Omg!!!

Dyatlov right?

So, like Walgreen's?

Klassy OP. The DL Klassy Kweens are creaming their caftans about now I suspect.

How I wish they had done this in the 1980s!

Yeah, because what America needs right now are more stores🙄

It looks like it'd take forever to get checked out. PASS.

Five Dollar General?

Mark up the same crap and keep the store tidy. The suckers will go for it!

Does this mean we won’t have to step over boxes and trash and wait in a line of 9 people for one cashier to check everyone out?

I’ve never been in a Dollar General and this doesn’t rouse my interest.

The Dollar Store wanted to open in my town. We fought it tooth and nail. No way this place is becoming a slum

Do you live in Eagleton, Indiana?

Dollar General higher class store = Party City + Walgreens/CVS

Is it the Two Dollar Store?

What's it called?

Desperation General

EURO OR POUND General Store?

Pound cake, R17

Trying to compete with Five Below. More junk from China.

I've never been inside a Dollar General. It does sound like Five Below (article is blocked for me). I went in that store exactly once and the chemical odor from all the Chinese crap made me feel ill.

$1.10 stores?

Très chic!

There's a Japanese convenience store in my town that always has a huge line. It has the lamest collection of stuff I've ever seen. It's called Daiso. DG should study them to find out why they are so popular people will wait in line for half an hour to go in....to a convenience store!

[quote] DG should study them to find out why they are so popular people will wait in line for half an hour to go in....to a convenience store!

Hello Kitty.

I don't shop at Dollar Stores. They reek of poverty.

In my area we have Dollar Tree, nothing is over a dollar., great deals on a lot of stuff. You just can't beat it.

By higher class do they mean that they offer bath soaps that aren't made in China and shampoo brands other than White Rain? If so, I'm all in!

Dollar General (and Family Dollar, which is owned by Dollar Tree) are not single-price "dollar stores" like Dollar Tree or the 99 Cents Only chain.

R23. We have a Daiso near where I live. I do not get it. When they first opened, I thought there was a major Hollywood Premiere.

They could go slightly upmarket by calling it Poundland...that's $1.30 in American money.

Your local grocery chain has much better sales with much better to offer. Dollar Generals and Dollar Trees are strategically placed among the downtrodden who likely don't possess reliable transportation, thereby necessitating a walk to the local Dollar store for their goods using their EBT cards.

I'm guessing the new, more upscale Dollar stores are for the ones collecting corporate welfare? Haha

Dollar stores need to take Dollar out of their names for the same reason we no longer have five and ten cent stores. Aside from inflation, in our current mudslide of a socioeconomic condition, stores like Dollar General will become the new upscale and the new Dollar Generals will be dumpsters.

[quote]I don't shop at Dollar Stores. They reek of poverty.

Get a load of Princess Michael of Kent!

[quote] What's it called?

Buck and a Quarter General.

[quote] By higher class do they mean that they offer bath soaps that aren't made in China and shampoo brands other than White Rain? If so, I'm all in!

Based on the knowledge of their products you have, I’d say you’re already all in.

[quote] They could go slightly upmarket by calling it Poundland

Unfortunately that name has already been trademarked by a porn store chain in the area.

[quote] Get a load of Princess Michael of Kent!

I assume you mean the cigarettes.

I’m so fucking excited about this

Cheap whores rejoice!

r32 As I mentioned upthread, Family Dollar and Dollar General are not single-price stores. They sell all kinds of merchandise at all different prices. So the "dollar" part of their name doesn't have anything to do with their pricing.

I’ve never even SEEN one of these stores.

I can’t read the article so I’m not sure what the store is called, but Dollar General opened an urban format store called DG at the bottom of a newer apartment building in Midtown Atlanta, and it’s been a hit. It’s not really a “dollar store,,” but is essentially something like a larger, cleaner bodega, and perfect for dense areas.

I like Dollar Tree. Here in the Ft. Lauderdale area, most are clean and stocked. The help are always very nice.

*DGX

How is their poundcake?

What do I get for 10 dollar? Anyting you want!

I never understood the hype with DG. They really aren’t all that cheap. I only like the Dollar Tree because you know nothing is going to cost more than a dollar.

Fuck that. Another vote for Daiso. I lived, if briefly, in Japan. Daiso is amazing for cheap-ass middle class queens like me.

I'll even take South Korea's Daiso spin-off.

Really, America needs more retail?

There's a gaybobber cashier at my local Dollar Tree who always gets huffy when I say I don't need a bag.

I always wonder if he's one of DL's conservative contributors.

I thought Walmart was already taken

Bless you, r18. I've moved on to bigger fish!

We never did get our 99 Cent Store on Rodeo Drive! Waahhh!

[quote]I always wonder if he's one of DL's conservative contributors.

Mention pound cake to him and see what kind of a response you get.

I've never been in one. The one closest to me, a standalone store, has always looked like a filthy junk shop from the outside. But now they've closed it down and moved to a shopping center where they took over the lease of a store that closed. They spent 2 months renovating the space and just moved in. When I was over that way recently I could see through the windows and it looked just like the OP photo. I may venture by tomorrow and see what they have to offer.

Oh you delicate flowers who would never think to slum and enter a shop for the poors!

[quote] Oh you delicate flowers who would never think to slum and enter a shop for the poors!

Poor is one thing I am not, and I regularly shop at Dollar Tree & Big Lots. And my absolute favorite discount shop is Tuesday Morning. I can't count all the wonderful finds I have from TM.

You realise R58, like you, I am well off but love crap stores, and I'm mocking the snob personas here.

My apologies for making the wrong assumption R59.

I hope there’s a glamorous ribbon cutting!

I’ll wear my best caftan.

Your best of the two?!

R58 and R59 should go shopping together.

That kicky lavender and white decor is a major step up from their usual dreary yellow-and-black.

Work of Art