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Let me guess there one of those mystically mystical shops called the wandering shops and it suddenly appears not too surprising I just wish I could do that LOL'
Average time per week is 130hrs.for all your staff.which means if you the manager has 48 hrs for yourself then you only have 82 hrs to spread around for your other employees.that means you work a lot.
@@silencemeviolateme6076 Goodlettsville, TN, 20 min from Nashville , is where the headquarters is. It's a weird mix of middle class, upper middle, and homeless junkies.
@@AEMoreira81 … I drove by 5 just to get from the Walmart to the McDonald’s right down the street lol. And while also driving by 3 waffle houses , 2 subways, and a Walgreens in between. Man there’s a lot of Dollar General stores
Sorry Night Angel but it's a buggy. Not a cart. And it's Middle Tennessee not Central Tennessee. I know that has nothing to do with your comment. Just a PSA.
Seriously, Dollar General needs to stock the shelves of the stores they have open before they open anymore. I’m tired of aisles being blocked with carts full of boxes
Bottom line, you still come in and shop. That's all they care about. They arent looking for friends or neighbors. They don't care about being a town treasure. They want cash. Michaela will be this way in 10 years. You want the wreath. You'll wait.
Because DG, like all other businesses just now can't find people to hire that want to work. They're all sitting on their rear ends waiting for the government check. Don't blame DG.
@@gardenbuzzy I was a 3rd key. They kept scheduling me with a crazy cashier that yelled at customers and called the cops. They expected me to cashier and stock shelves recover and clean. Two people from 5-10. I want staying for that. Mostly trash customers to begin with waiting in line 20 minutes. I wasn't putting up with anyone's trashiness anymore. Had the feeling the manager was stealing and didn't trust me. I hope she was. I hope they are robbing dg blind. I worked there 2002-2004 and it was a dream by comparison.
I was laughing because I live on an Island on the Texas coast (Galveston is the name of our town/Island) and there are several Family Dollar and Dollar General Locations on our little Island lol.
I used to work a job where I had to go to the most rural parts of my state and whenever I went to a small town, even if there was nothing around, there was always a dollar general.
@@dogestranding5047 there's a place in South Carolina called pumpkin town that got its first new business in 80 years a couple years ago and it was a Dollar general.
There’s a tiny town near here where nearly everything has closed but the have a Dollar General and a Family Dollar. Even the IGA closed, you have to drive 15 miles to the nearest town to get groceries.
My Wife is a District Manager For Dollar Tree...Paid serious Flow!..Car/Phone/Stocks.Etc....They Rule the Dollar Store Industry...Ask Family Dollar..lol.
That explains why the DG around the corner never has any dairy products, but the one around the other corner has all kinds of dairy products, clearly corporate doesn't realize our DG exists!
Same with mine. The 1 to the left, nothing and nobody. The 1 to the right, Always fully stocked with products And friendly staff. I wonder which 1 us the clone. 🤔
I'm not even southern and I enjoy this lol they need to do one where they visit family in the north east in the middle of winter. There is so much there they could easily do 2 videos on that.
By the way I visited one of those outside the country which is and was for gifts, as side gifts and they didn't have much of equal equation, "in the ocean" they had porcelain piggy's coin and money, I got those, it's okay if it broke though as one immediately did, it was only a dollar of equal equation.. And they had some cups and some plastic utensils, paper.
I'm serious when I say our local Dollar General closed down... To build a larger Dollar General on the other side of the street. I don't mean metaphorically; I mean you can walk in a straight line from the abandoned building to the currently operating store.
Brand new DG down the road from me, built right beside where the old one was. I thought surely A new one would always have stocked shelves.....I was wrong.....horribly wrong!😳😖😩
When we visited Kentucky this summer, my wife and I stated playing "Slug General" with the kids. It's like "Slug Bug" but with Dollar General. We have them in South Dakota, but not on every corner of every town and cornfield.
My tiny town has seven and if you drive about ten minutes outside of town in any direction you can find another one. I'm in Kentucky so image one of y'all's arm was bruised by the state line.
"They're turning into Russian nesting dolls." "We aren't building new stores. The're building themselves." You guys are comedy gold. That's multiplying.
As a former DG employee, I can confirm we had to repel the attacks from the tumor-like second store in our stockroom. If it wasn't for our abundant supply of various paper towels the blood from the War Of The Stores might have overwhelmed us.
As a DG assistant manger, the fully staffed store is what I wish all the stores in my area could say. We can barely keep up with keeping our backroom even half way empty. We have so much overstock and seasonal items for spring and summer that it takes up 2/3 of our stock room. It's insane! We make the joke that you know your town is finally big enough when you get a DG, lol.
Also in Ohio, can confirm. You can't throw a rock without hitting one dg or another. "Nah we gotta go to the one down by the high school its so much better."
@@SuperSirianRigel don't need to print it every day takes time to open stores because they actually have to build a lot of them due to in the middle of no where.
@@SuperSirianRigel The map was digital, not hanging on a wall - and it was always a little bit out of date each time I saw it. The store list was always more up to date than the map.
There is a Dollar General sadly missing for Langston, Alabama. Please DG put a store in this remote vacation destination and for residents who must travel 20 miles for a gallon of milk.
I busted out and snorted on the "Redbox"! Hillarious!! I worry about the viability of a move to "TV"...maybe a streamed series on Netflix or the like...
That is their store brand fyi. And they want restock it for days at a time. No C.V. chips for 8 days at my DG. No lunch meat (NONE) for 4 days. But someone is ALWAYS on smoke break. I started keeping track. I go every day or 2 (on foot and they are 3 blocks away) and in the last 11 WEEKS someone has been on smoke break EVERY time!!! If I lived closer to walk-mart I would go there.
I’ve been to some random out of the way places on road trips and Dollar General is the only thing that is EVERYWHERE. No gas station, yes dollar general. It’s bizarre.
I worked for Dollar General for 3 years. This skit is accurate. (There are 4 DGs within 5 miles of me.) Friendly reminder during holidays and every day: the everyday employees are overworked, underpaid, stores are understaffed, they get no benefits, and are just trying to keep a roof over their heads. Be nice. Please don't accuse the cashier of bait-and-switch because they have no control over sales, ads, and pricing. Thank you.
I was in my local Dollar G recently, and one employee was checking another's lunchbox to make sure they weren't shoplifting. They do it every time they come and go. I don't see how they get anyone to work there.
I don't blame the folks working there I blame their management. It's absolutely ridiculous to have two people working one store. The stock is never on the shelves, the aisles are so crowded you can barely walk through them. I'm honestly surprised no one has brought an ADA lawsuit against them. Because they serve a population where it may be the only store for miles they have a responsibility to be able to serve all their customers, not just the ones who are able to leapfrog the boxes in the aisles.
If I had to guess, corporate is focused solely on expansion, instead of the stores themselves, which is replicating Kmart in the 70's. Sounds good on paper, but if you're not setup to handle a large amount of stores, it's going to collapse on you one day, just like it did Kmart in the mid-90's when they narrowly escaped bankruptcy.
It’s disgusting the way they treat their people. I was in a DG one day and there was only one girl working. She had a transport truck delivering in back, three vendors delivering up front, a store full of customers and the main office had her on a conference call at the same time, which she said she could not get out of. They restrict the amount of employee hours they can use every week! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone into one of these stores and seen a manager crying, because supervisors treat them worse than dogs. I used to be a vendor, but I have not been in one of these hell holes since I retired!
I worked at one years ago, it was basically shoving 10 gallons of crap into a 5 gallon bucket, only place I've ever gotten yelled at for trying to put something back where it belonged. Then I swear they hire truck drivers even Swift won't touch, let's put a case of light bulbs on the bottom and throw a case of detergent on them.
And the DG stores are always busy! There might be 300 people in town and three DG stores and each store has over a hundred customers a day! For real crazy.
Yes, and how you must use self checkout for your entire cartfull of groceries and every 5th item triggers the blinking red light and "Please wait for assistance" error but there is NO ONE around to offer assistance....oh, sorry.
Dollar Tree is much better. Everything in DG is getting higher and higher priced. Many of the things they sell are actually cheaper at Walmart and Target. 😟
My husband grew up in a very tiny rural town in middle GA. Their claim to fame is nine roads and a blinky light (that they only got around 30 years ago). About 300 people on a good day when nobody died. 2 churches and an old gas station that is now a chicken place. That’s it EXCEPT for what they call the Mall - yep, it’s a Dollar General. Now that they have it, they don’t have to drive the 30-50 miles to the nearest Wally World. Totally worth any extra $ in time and gas. ;)
Isn't Dollar Tree an actual dollar store? (everything cost a dollar), or has that changed? Dollar General is a mini-mini Walmart, so there is no everything is a dollar there
I’m a typewriter collector and I drove through SC today to go get one. I saw a grand total of 12 Dollar Generals. I thought of your skits the entire time
I work at the Dollar General corporate office, and this is literally my everyday life. I can't decide if I love this more for its many accuracies or hate it more for its equal number of inaccuracies. XD XD XD
@@sokyoutdoors588 most of the crap on here from disgruntled ex-employees are only there because people don't want to WORK for their check. Is this the best job I ever had? No. Is it the worst? Not by a long shot. There's hours to be had, if you wanna work.
@@Videostoredontgo digital coupons work just fine if you clip them before you try to use them, and actually read the exceptions. Neither the manufacturer, nor Dollar General are going to help you commit retail fraud. Learn how coupons work and stop arguing policy with the cashier. It's posted at the checkout, and you don't have a clue how it works. Your assignment is to read policy for COMPREHENSION. I don't have to fix your screw ups with coupons, just because you don't understand how they work. I will NOT, however, return and re-ring your items because you forgot your frigging coupon. Your lack of preparedness, on your part, does not constitute an emergency, on mine. Get yourself together and stop expecting personal shoppers when you walk through the door. You'll get a lot more assistance and genuine help if you stop acting so entitled, actually be accountable for your own life.
We are a small town of 8000 people and we have two now, only two miles apart. The next town over has only 5000 people and they also have two--on the same street, one mile apart.
This is still my favorite video on IST! Every time I start the videos to watch again, this video is always the first one!! My new catch phrase? "Sweet Clover Valley"!
This is so true. We are a small town and already had 3 Dollar Generals and ANOTHER one popped up a quarter mile down from an existing one. You can see the store from the other store!
I remember going on family vacations and traveling through Georgia on our way to the Florida panhandle and my brother and I made up a game. Every time one of us saw a Dollar General, we had to give the other person a dollar. Needless to say, we ended up changing a dollar to a quarter which was eventually changed to a penny. That game ended up being expensive.
Well, they're actually not everywhere. I live in a stuck-up town full of boutiques and designer stores that sell useless junk for extraordinary prices. It's a 20-minute drive to my closest DG where the useless junk is much more reasonably priced.
Nuts! 🛒. Wawa & Walgreens did that in central FL to the point a few closed 🏚. Bad mgmt & over speculation. 7-11s over saturated too but they level out. Orlando FL at 1 point had 4, four ☕ Starbucks within 1.5mi . 1 in a Target, 2 cafes, 1 in a B&N 📚. They had 3 cafes but that only lasted about 2yr.
DG gets a lot of hate - though, I guess some of it is deserved. I used to work at a DG and we were lucky to have an OCD great manager so our ratings we're the best in our district. I'd go to another DG just 15 miles away and it was like they were in a contest to see how many boxes they could stack on top of each other in the isles.
You guys are thebest. Goodluck. I havent laughed so hard in a long time durning this pandemic... literally turkey dinner flew out my mouth from laughing so hard
Soon enough, we’ll all be LIVING in dollar generals, our kids will be born in dollar general. We’ll have family gatherings and graduations..in dollar general. We live and die by the dollar general..all hail dollar general!
Find Walmart on a map, follow each main road away from it and you'll find a DG. It's a genius plan. You get in your car and start to Walmart for a few items. Toilet paper, laundry detergent and a loaf of bread for example. You dread the trip because you know that while you're going after three things, you'll some how end up with at least a dozen things. Then you see that Dollar General sitting there across the road from the trailer park or subdivision. It's a lot closer to your house, you won't have to walk a mile to get in the store, after which you have to walk another mile to round up your items. So your mind says, screw it. Stop here instead! You're in, your out and at worst you bought a candy bar and a bottle of something to drink extra. You may have paid a dollar or two more but you saved a lot by not buying all that extra stuff you didn't want in the first place. Over time you cut your trips to the big box store down to maybe once a week and find yourself at the Dollar General more. Someone in the Dollar General corporation got a big promotion out of this.
I can leave my house in any direction and the first store I’ll pass will be a DG. My mom says they are like mushrooms, they pop up over night.They just announced DG is building a store in Lexie, Mississippi. I don’t think there are a hundred people in Lexie!
Maybe I should not give them any ideas but I want be surprised if walmart buys out DG so they can have a WM in all the itty bitty towns. Enough time and less anti-trust laws and some corporate big shot will own every retail store on Earth. And then it will be them vs Amozon\EBay. And then toco bell or who ever wins the fast food war will feed everyone. 😂😂😂😂
Driving around Kentucky this summer, my wife and I would bust out laughing at seeing one in the middle of a cornfield. No town, or even farmhouse in site. The lot was full.
I live in Mississippi. Small town with no more than 400 folks living there. We got a school. A fed store. 2 gas stations. A single burger restaurant. And a Dollar General. The nearest Walmart is 40 min drive away so...
