How Dollar Stores Really Make Their Money 

Dollar General!

In regions where the retail rents are low in the western US: Dollar Tree. And the reason why I say low rent areas is that in high rent areas, the few Dollar Tree stores to be found just don't carry the inventories of value merchandise as what can be found in low rent areas.

Dollar Tree, of course, everything isssssssssssss a dollar.

Dollar Tree

I like Ninety Nine Cents Store

Their glassware is good too

Good to know

Card are cute to be honest doesn’t take much effort but it takes more

YUP 2 FOR A DOLLAR

The glassware has caught up with inflation..go to thrift shops where you might find absolute treasures, or might find just retail almost good enough.

Well I live in miami and we also some dollar stores intermixed with targets and Walmarts🤷🏽‍♀️

Stores that rip off the poor aren't a benefit

J K - Are you referring to dollar stores? Because there are non-poor people (i.e., middle class and even wealthy individuals) who go there for some bargains, like party and craft supplies (it’s often mentioned as a lifehack in lots of blogs), but those who go for basics like toilet paper 🧻 are typically the poor. If you’re on a really tight budget (like working minimum wage, and can only work so many hours in the day and week), dollar stores allow you to have a decent quality of life, where you don’t have to do without. The 99 Cents Only stores (at least where I shop) are so pleasant, and the shopping experience is really dignified. Excellent, well-rounded selection, too. Produce is good, and they take up the supply that other grocery stores won’t (like smaller sizes than are standard there). Being able to spend $5 at a dollar store, rather than $15 at somewhere like Target or Walmart will matter for some people, if they’re not into 5-finger discounts.

Mo Poppins Same here*

​@@MoPoppins Actually, when I was working for barely more than minimum wage (this was as a small market newspaper reporter, a job I wanted at the time) I found out that when I began purchase things I needed in larger quantities in order to save money on the unit cost, I soon began to have more money. I am talking about little things like t.p., toothpaste, certain food items, cleaning products and such. If you shop at a dollar store, you have to pay attention to unit price. Sometimes those things like the small bottles of brand name dishwashing detergent cost the same, or less, per ounce than the large bottles do. Packaging is deceptive. In any case, being a value-aware shopper is going to save you a lot of money. But being value aware is over the heads of most of the working poor and the dependent low-income people in America. They gotta get back to their TV shows and their dissipated social whirl.

Cards are a great deal. Not easy to find a $3 card anywhere. They're a lot more than that

They are fake brand cards. Its not the original version of the high paying brand

@@josezaragoza3188 so

@@josezaragoza3188 theres no such thing as a fake brand card. its a card with words on it

I just bought a Mother's Day card from Walmart. Boy, was I shocked at the checkout to see that it was $8!

You'd be surprised.

I buy my drinking glasses for $1 each!

How long does it take you to use 15 feet of aluminum foil? I'll pay a buck for something I'm going to use once in a blue moon instead of 3 or 4

99 cent store has 25 precut sheets for a dollar so you get 25sq feet for a dollar

Yes!! THIS! Absolutely! Every media piece I see nowadays that knocks dollar stores always sounds like it is written by someone who can afford to knock dollar stores. Moreover, they sound like they never have or will ever be anything poorer than upper middle class. It's so frustrating. They cite the same annoying GENERALIZED statistics over and over. And they lack actual insight into what it means to be unable to afford much more than dollar items. So they don't really understand what it is like logistically for a person to only have the ability to shop at dollar tree. There's so many factors that these silly reviews don't even attempt to consider. For example: someone who is not making enough $$ to purchase a phone charger for more than a dollar is not in a place to be worried about cancer or other illnesses resulting from contacting hazardous plastics or materials. They are worried about SO much more than cancer in ten years... They need to focus on more immediate concerns, like how is my family going to eat today?? But these videos dissing these stores don't even seem to begin to conceptualize anything like that stuff. It's really frustrating to hear.

@@terryhill166 of course. They’re doing it for viewer clicks too, not necessarily to actually help anyone. They’re profit motivated, not ministries. So these reviews aren’t going anywhere.

Absolutely, a little bit of everything you need

You’ll have quantity but not quality . I’d personally rather have 3-4 good items than 20 useless or short-lasting items .

For me it really depends on the items

Jeweled you’re right, it depends on the items. I buy my plates, bowls, silverware, and picture frames (things I usually get several of in 1 purchase) there. Some of them have been dropped, and they didn’t crack or break, but even if they did, it’s not a big deal, and at $1 each, I can easily get a replacement.

@@angelcano8868 Except not everything at dollar stores is is useless or short-lasting, don't know where you got that from.

Jordan Loomis which all attributes to the build up in landfills

Lol not the plasticware. I break their plastic without trying lol. I broke a spoon a few weeks ago lol, I broke a fork like 3 or 4 lol. I'll stick to their dollar metal spoons and forks lmfao

And see how easy that is Jordan? Justin is buying metal forks and spoons, which does what you say? ...It saves our environment, so it can be reused! All for the same price...Thank you for contributing to the better of the plant Justin. You earn a gold star today ⭐️ !

@@jbhobbs5747 lol thank you. *puts star on* I will wear it proudly. I can't break a metal spoon lol. At most bend it. OHHHHH lol. Okay I'm done lol

Truuuue. I went to Dollar Tree only for gift related things. Sometimes pens but rarely.

I've been in the same town almost 20 years and 2 walmarts were built . That destroyed the local hardware store also a big grocery store was closed. The pawn shop survived only because the owner decided to post Items online , I see his ads in craigslist. The local furniture store also closed down. It seems only the big corporate chains survived Kroger, publix, and fast food. Now I am seeing 5-6 new dollar stores so my area is overrun by big Corporate brands. The only business I see making it here is a unique restaurant or coffee shop but you really have to make it special to compete with Sbux, chipotle, etc. There was 2 taco joints that closed down since 2010 , I'm thinking maybe a unique donut shop with High quality coffee could win over those customers. $3 a cup and maybe $1 for gourmet donuts/"import style"pastries also a special to get people in the door $1.50 for a small coffee and a cheap glazed donut

Your community isn't better off with dollar stores. It might be easier, but it's not better.

Agree my family lives in NE michigan also but live close to farm stands in the summer. But closest grocery store 30miles. But sadly DG and FD DT are 10 plus miles. They had a family dollar but it closed up. Rural areas are the hardest hit for dollar stors for a good reason! Especially thr northern states in the winter

Jack pine Savage you’re wrong it’s called Michissippi and sometimes I miss it. It’s a fun place to grow up

Why stay in a poor place?

The old dollar store i used to go to had shelves that were very empty until one opened up near me

The one near me overstocks their shelves

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ikr. Every time I go into the dollar tree near my house, I cant find what I was looking for because it was out of stock. Although, to be fair, this is probably caused by assholes going in and spending like $30 on one item because it's just one dollar

True that could be their down fall unstocked shelves. I hate that!

Brett Carlow rich or poor every body be at dollar tree

@@11216mel I think you just created their slogan!! Rich or Poor...Everybody Be at Dollar Tree!

Even the Kardashians? Lol

@Miguel Rodriguez Now Miguel, we don't KNOW this, now DO we?! :D

I agree, even Donald Trump shops at Dollar tree, This way he doesn't have to pay taxes on groceries. 😅

Yup and they are constantly restocking.

3 years of Christmas seasonal that’s pure torture

@@sothbeachboy2195 the worst form of sensory warfare ive ever endured...hahahaha

All stores do this

Correct

Lol, this is just what the video said about dollar stores being profitable. They are not saving you money pacarro, you were just swindled. It is the plight of the poor, they often pay more for just about everything because they are easily fooled.

Do you work at Dollar Tree?

@@roxcyn no if you read clearly it say no but all she say is mostly true for 90% of locations.... I've known people who have worked there... high turnover rate because they ask too much and never enough staff so a parent can't do the job, and be a parent. You have to work crazy hours and can almost never trade shift or get a day off if your kid is sick... so college kids and retired people mostly

@@joshwhipkey9957 - she said no about being a manager. Maybe she is a cashier there. 🤷🏼‍♂️

True. I worked as a cashier for a couple months to make some spending money. I got tired of the various hrs. And I hated having to deal with the balloons. Never enough help

It hadn't been the smartest decision you ever did in your life it's a waste of a Time company to work for

Tina Well, that’s me 😂😂😂

@@jessicakabelwelter2774 that's how they get you guys, I walk in buying a certain thing and might walk out with one or two other things since it's only a dollar, but I've learned to control myself at Dollar tree.

Lmfao I spend like 20

Well sorry but I know I can never buy just one item from there! 😊

Tina I don't carry large amounts of money in these stores. Cuts down on unnecessary spending

I have found full size brand name toothpaste (2.89 at Walmart), name brand nail polish, name brand full size snacks... It's not all just smaller size packages of things. You have to look for things and know their cost at other stores to find the best values at dollar tree.

Mine is located in the hood

I think you mean 100,000 sq ft store. 100 ft x 100 ft is 10000 square feet. Dollar Stores are easily bigger than that.

I’m a cosmetologist and reading this comment about the shampoo and conditioner made me almost faint 😭

Those products will damage your hair... careful

Cainan C What you talking about?? They have many brands that are sold at regular stores, such as Suave & Colgate! Yes even shampoo & toothpaste

Yes lets skimp on the things we apply directly to our skin. What could go wrong? :P

Oh no...

robert zerrenner when do you go back to Dollar Tree?

Usually just for a laugh.

robert zerrenner ohh do people steal from that Dollar Tree

Probably, but don't know. Not there often enough to see that.

Sales tax?

Yup

black moon I started volunteering for the Red Cross and was going through a large box of batteries that had been donated after a slew of tornadoes from four years earlier. There were a bunch of ray-o- vac battlers that we’re still in date that had to be discarded because they we’re leaking. The sunbeam batteries like you get at dollar tree we’re already a year and more out of date but they were still good. Go figure.

carlos ramirez That’s true, I buy picture frames there, and books occasionally.

Of course! That’s why people go there! They think they can outsmart us but some of us know how to use their store wisely too! 😂😂 For me I only go there to buy things that are ridiculously expensive at other stores but are exactly the same thing.. such as gift bags, gift wrapping & bows, greeting cards etc..

Facts

Lots of things there are just really low quality

I own $1 🌲 stock

I would lay odds they cleaned up the store before they filmed

These are the dollar generals that go in rich white peoples’ neighborhoods who shop their for fun, or the broke kids off affluent parents go here.

and hay ................................ is for horses.

@@skpjoecoursegold366 bruh🤣

Bee Mk it’s not the businesses job to feed the poor, thoughts like that’s where communist shit starts forming!

Is part charity for the Walmart greeter

Bee Mk Exactly

Oof

karina rodriguez nonsense I live in a good and expensive town yet we have dollar tree. We all shop there 🤷🏽‍♀️

Not necessarily. lol

More often than not.

You're not teaching them wise spending if that's the case.

@@MilwaukeeWoman - Try to find fresh produce cheaper than 99 Cent store.

I miss 99¢ store

Yep. Everyone bashes retailers for low wages and crappy benefits. But the first time they raise prices 1% to pay for it, they scream bloody murder.

Stemi Dill I love Aldi and Lidl...great prices. But sometimes they don’t sell enough of a product and I end up spending more. We always get cases of water from Walmart or the regular grocery because aldi and lidl only sell them in 12 pack

Exactly!!!!!

And Target, oh yeah and Kroger.

Walmart was the original dollar store. They are getting beat at their own game.

Yep. Imagine what that 2 ltr bottle of Pepsi would cost if they had to pay a $15 /hr minimum wage, offer insurance to all part time employees, and hire more full time workers. Everyone complains about how Walmart treats its employees, but surprisingly, no one wants to pay $5 for a 2L Pepsi either.

KC L better read the back of those greeting cards, made in China