• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      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.

      Interior of a Dollar General

      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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        Lol. Did they use AI to clean the aisles in that photo, because they’re too cheap to hire enough help ($8/hr starting wage), and expect 1-2 employees to unload and check in truck deliveries, put it away, change prices on shelves, assist customers, and run registers. Then they constantly berate staff for “shrink”.

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        What? Why’s it more expensive than Walmart? Do Dollar Generals sell electronics and appliances? Or do Walmarts not do that in the States? Lol

        • It’s their commitment to having all their prices end in a 0 or a 5. So it’s generally a few cents more expensive than Walmart.

          And yes, they sell electronics and appliances. I got my food processor at a Dollar General. It’s a cuisinart, but it’s also small as fuck. But it was $15 so 🤷‍♂️

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          They generally do not sell large appliances or electronics, more like, headphones or coffee makers, maybe. And they would have like 2 options max, maybe 1, because its all goinf to be in an 8 foot section in one aisle.

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      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.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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    Remember that tesla elon musk illegally dumped into space? Imagine that junk crash into this, it would be very american.

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    There’s a Waffle House across the street. Gregg Phillips might teleport there (if we’re lucky) and certain other Republican politicians are banned.

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    Tills be a sprit Halloween in a couple more months. Not enough foot traffic to keep a dollar store open.

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    “This is just AI slop!” --Half the people that are going to comment on this post.

    Yes it is, I didn’t actually go to the moon and take a picture of a Dollar General. Sorry.