Discount retailer says low-income households feel more ‘financially constrained’ than six months ago
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PW;DR.
Dollar General is cancer. Their prices are no better than somewhere like Walmart, the only “good” thing is the convenience, I feel like I can’t drive ten minutes without passing one
Their prices are no better than somewhere like Walmart,
And their products are smaller. There are Dollar General sized versions. So you end up with less product per dollar spent.
Don’t live in the country, huh? Sometimes they’re the only general store for miles and miles and miles. They’re a great fit, in that niche.
My camp is outside a town of 900 souls. There’s a Dollar General and a gas-station/general-store/grocery. Almost never hit the DG, but it’s damned nice they’re there in case I need something the other place doesn’t have.
In your example, in my situation, the nearest Walmarts are 45-minutes west and 30-minutes east. Double those numbers because it’s a round trip. Do you really want to take my DG away and force me to spend the gas and time? If you proposed that in this town, you’d have a riot on your hands.
I worry this sort of news could push voters towards Republicans. The Republicans will make things much worse for low-income and middle class voters, of course. But for some reason, a lot of Americans buy into the ancient lie that Republican policies are “good for jobs and the economy”.
its because they think the president just flips a magic switch right when they hit office. They don’t realize policy takes time and rebups continuously sabotage shit on their way out of office.
I recently saw a video about how much better the economy was under Trump and it totally glossed over the fact that Trump was riding off of Obama’s presidency and the reason why it’s so bad under Biden is cuz he’s been having to clean up after Trump.
Voters have the memories of a fucking goldfish.
I’m sure Dollar General’s predatory pricing and aggressive business tactics to kill off local competition have nothing to do with it, too.
That’s me this month… officially running out of money and all avenues of emergency funds. I realized it yesterday and still processing what my next move is to survive. Both my wife and myself have decent jobs but just can’t make ends meet anymore. Final nail is kids daycare expenses. man, do I seriously wish this was over with and we would be ok… idk how people do this.
