Post #2054729
2026-04-04 15:02 UTC
Replies (3)
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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 15:26
Probably. Often it’s a corner store around sprawling middle-class suburban areas on the outskirts of cities with few shops (zoning in the US is fucked), somewhat denser but low-income urban areas, and often it’ll be the only place besides a gas station in rural towns where you can get groceries without driving miles to a larger town. Unsurprisingly, they’re parasites. Here’s an interior shot from their own website, so if you can imagine that but more soulless in reality, you have a Dollar General. I actually don’t consider myself that biased against DG in particular; the situation in America is kind of just that bad.
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-04-04 19:50
It’s more like a slightly more expensive Walmart, with even lower quality products and fewer staff members to handle operating the store so it’s always got empty shelves and/or dirty as shit.
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@RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2026-04-05 15:40
Probably. Their gimmick as someone else said, is every price ends in 00 or .50. Most stores in the US are .99 or something. That “illusion of cheaper”. Walmart tends to be .98. But also, basically every tiny rural town has 1 or 2 of these stores. They may not even have a Wal-mart ofna regular grocery store, but they will have a Dollar General.