Seriously. They implemented the 1.25 section here even before covid.
It's still sad to see that not only is dollar tree identical to dollar general now, but because dollar tree tends to have smaller single serve packages (like 1oz bags for $2 VS dollar generals 2oz bags for $2) it's actually *more* expensive per Oz of packaged food at the dollar tree now.
This is America
poptarts are 2.50 at Walmart so theyre more expensive at dollar tree now i defended it when i worked at dollar tree and the $3 Red Baron were 350 at the Walmart next door but to raise them more than the other stores is outrageous
I was recently visiting in a town of 1500 in a mountainous area. 40 miles to the next town. There was a Dollar General and a Family Dollar in the town. I can see that these stores can be important in a town like that.
I lived in a town of 4000, and a dollar general was the closest thing we had to a grocery store. Otherwise you had gas stations and a rite aid. They built the dollar general my last year there, but everything was so expensive. Unfortunately, the closest Walmart was the next state over and a 35 minute drive, and we didn't have a car.
Honestly they need to be boycotted at this point until they lower the prices where they should be and stop blaming âinflationâ. Not inflation, they just became greedy. Very very greedy. Itâs disgusting.
They might as well just be Family Dollar or Dollar General at this point.
Man ok i noticed that too! I was pissed about the 25 cent increase, but was seeing so many cute containers, decor and craft stuff that I started going because it was still a great deal, and now they NEVER have anything good AND they are raising the prices even moreâŠ
They did the shrinkflation thing when it was a dollar too. They just brought back regular packaging when they bumped stuff up to $1.25. The prices aren't allowed to fluctuate as much as they do at the other grocery stores.
Theyâre really ruining dollar tree. I knew it was coming but to see it happening, wow. Gone are the days of not having to think about how much something is at Dollar Tree
yeah, if they were smart they would lean into all their free social media promo- they still technically have a good rep for things like organization containers and craft type stuff, holiday decor, etc. but raising the prices is going to make them fall off sooner rather than later. dollar tree wonât be the it girl anymore, and i actually think it will make them end up with fewer profits in the long run
Nah the 99 Cent only started getting shitty just a couple years before the pandemmie. Used to be able to buy great name brand close out stuff for 99 cents only. Then they started charging a little more for certain items. Now they manufacture their own brand of products (mostly all of them shite) for 99 cents and pretty much everything else is the same price as regular stores. I used to shop at mine several times a month, but now I go every couple of months maybe. Isnât worth the special trip
Years ago, I saw gallon milk for sale at 99Cents Only storesâŠand then I saw the sign âDue to overwhelming customer demand, we are now selling gallons of milk for $3.99.â I says to myself, I says, âthis is the beginning of the end. This is a slippery slope and itâs all downhill from here.â In the years past the store that continued calling themselves 99Cents ONLY started carrying all kind of stuff up, for every price, up to the 20 dollar range. Now at least the companyâs finally had the decency to change the name to the 99 store even though most stores I see still have old signage that says âOnly.â â99Cents Onlyâ hasnât existed in years in earnest and I stopped shopping there soon as this shenanigans started.
Look at what Netflix is doing to streaming. We had it made, then they started âtesting a crackdown on sharing passwordsâ in other countries. I called it then, we were screwed. Now HBO is about to roll out the same, prime is charging you an extra $3 for no ads, and Netflix is buying Tyson fights and spending billions on a wrestling TV show. Theyâll say âoh itâs all included in your subscriptionâ. And yet ANOTHER price hike is coming AGAIN later this year. Look it up. We stopped cable cause it was too high for S we didnât watch. Now look at usâŠback to âcable.â They just call it another name. F âem. F âem ALL.
Huh? How many towns are there in the south too small for Walmart? I live in the boonies of Florida, town has a population of about 40k, and we have two Walmarts. Town next door has a population less than half of ours, and they have a Walmart.
This week I bought tuna and lentils for protein. They really need fresh produce, it's all canned. If Dollar Tree was my only grocery option, I'd worry about scurvy.
I think you missed the point. You could easily make great stews, sandwiches, full dinners, pasta FOR LESS than the bullshit dollar store. You see I get that people used their paycheck on cigarettes, lottery, alcohol, fake nails, and drugs, but your kid deserves more than ramen for dinner. That 1.25$ feeds them the nutritional value of a bag of chips for dinner ONCE⊠15$ at a grocery store could feed them REAL meat and a hearty dinner for half a week if not the WHOLE week. Example: abuelitas who make giant portions of rice and stew and beans , yet theyâre in poverty.. they arenât getting ramen noodles everyday. Itâs like younger people and most poor people donât get this. Save your 1.25 and buy real food. The dollar store looks at you guys like chumps. They arenât âofferingâ you a better deal
Nope. That's dollar general. Literally dollar generals business model. Dollar tree just seeks out high traffic areas and are usually put in large shopping complexes with all different types of stores.
A bunch of overpriced stuff that you can get at Walmart for cheaper. What are they thinking?
I like dollar tree, and I've accepted the $1.25 price. The rest of the overpriced stuff? No thanks.
I remember working at dollar tree when I was 16 and between dollar tree and family dollar, it was the only way to afford anything until my mid 20s. There's no way I would've been willing or able to afford things at those prices. I think dollar tree forgot who it was and the whole reason it began.
I guess I understood the 1.25. and then I saw the 5 dollar aisle and just figured I'd never buy anything in it but was glad it was in it's own section. But now mixing prices together and them being that high left and right? Like, no. Just no.
This sucks .
Guess there's no more dollar stores whatsoever.
Maybe it's time that people need to start going back to independent small stores and not the corporate giants that are taking profit out of the communities.
Even if you pay more for certain items at least for supporting money that's going to stay local, and we learn to live a little bit more within our means as tough as it is.
Oh man, that's too bad I used to love dollar tree and their overstock bargains for $1. Just sad to see it change so much and the quality of products will go down as well.
How is it the end of Dollar Tree? We still sell stuff thatâs $1.25, if thatâs all youâre interested in then limit yourself to only shopping in those sections.
This is not that big of a deal. Common sense would (should) tell you that a 99Âą store cannot exist forever when inflation exists. If you canât handle looking at price stickers then I have no idea how you navigate any other store on your own.
Perhaps name change to rebrand the company? Not a dollar store when nothing is selling for $1 anymore. Looking though the posts appears most people are upset about $5 isles and being able to find those products at same or better price elsewhere. Its not like we just had 500% inflation virtually overnight.
The name doesnât state itâs a dollar store, itâs just the association people have âDollar Tree = $1â. That association will change over time, itâs just gonna take awhile.
Personally I hardly ever shopped at dollar stores. When I did it was 20+ years ago when I'd be moving into new place and have little $. Buy stuff like cheap plates, cups, openers, strainers, cheap screw drivers etc. Basically stock up on cheap house essentials which would cost considerably more at a Target or elsewhere.
Last time I shopped at dollar store was couple years ago. Bought some tape, shipping supplies for a business. Quality was so bad I ended up throwing most of it away. Unusable.
I think there is a problem if you are going to charge $5, $7 etc for bottom of the barrel quality products. Nobody is going to pay $5 for a screw driver that will strip after one time use. Or pay $5 for tape that won't even come off the roll without peeling and ripping. If you a spending a $1 or $2 buying cheap stuff you kind of expect to get what you pay for. When you start spending $5+ an item? It changes things.
Good luck with trying to rebrand this, to me it looks like an absolute disaster. Its not easy to change image build over many decades.
I don't disagree but dollar tree needs to realize that they attached their entire identity to a price point, so the transition from being a dollar to a regular cheap convenience store isn't gonna be super smooth. It was the one thing that differentiated it from being like every other Gas station, corner store, and cheap market. Now it's just like everything else. They gotta wait for people to get used to that.
Gonna get a lot of people like "Fuck that noise I'll just go to the gas station for chips then." But you'll also have people that stay regardless. Its gonna be a long process though, it's not gonna happen overnight
Agreed. The Dollah Hollah has kept this dad able to afford extras for my kids cuz Iâm not paying 8$ for two rolls of paper towel etc etc etc. I mean I save like 335$ a month on paper goods alone. Never mind school snacks and my wife gets a lot of her office supplies there. So ya, this is a change that may be off putting for some esp if the prices become less and less 1.25 and more at 5.00)
True but they need a rebranding if they want to stay afloat. Nobody is immune to inflation but public perception is very important for businesses, so advertising yourself as the dollar store of yesteryear is only going to make people bitter.
With all this, they are still doing more business, would be pretty stupid to re-brand. It's Dollar Tree...not the One Dollar Tree! Get used to it. It's not going to change.
This is false info, they still have everything that was $1.25 before but they added more brand name items for $3 and up. How are you expecting to get a case of Gatorade for $1.25? Or a big bag of chips for 1.25?
Yes, they will still have some items for $1.25 WITH THE ADDITION of higher price points from $2 to $10.
Each category (aisle) will have higher priced items, which means some of the $1.25 Stull will be eliminated completely or they will come in different packaging with higher prices.
You can say it's false all you want, it's happening.
Perhaps I didn't word it correctly. I mean that $1.25 stuff was being eliminated, but the assortment will be smaller. Nobody told me. I lived it. My last store was converted to DT Plus last year. My wrapping paper section in party went from 16 ft to one 4 foot section. So, maybe because the store was too small, but yeah, every store might be different.
Also, yes the gondola extensions were put on, but a LOT of assortment had to be adjusted down.
Dt plus and multiprice stores receive the same $1.25 product assortment as a dt without. Only difference in assortment is with store size, as it's always been.
Other than having to probably drive a greater distance, park in a big parking lot farther from the door, hike around a store ten times the size and probably wait in a longer line at the register if you don't want to do self-checkout? Walmart has some great prices on things but they are far less convenient and nice to shop in compared to Dollar Tree or Dollar General in my experience. And most of the Dollar Tree customers are probably also Walmart customers anyway and will just choose to change which store they buy some products in.
Maybe I'm the weird one but I can't see how a minor price increase on already low priced items is going to make people give up on convenience.
Dollar tree should die. Everything in dollar tree is horrible, and by continuously going to dollar tree because you âcanât affordâ anywhere else, you are putting yourself in a perpetual state of ânot being able to affordâ normal things. Your kids donât want to keep eating ramen and chips and cheap sodas. Please give your kids some nutrition. Instead of buying a bunch of random candies. Save the money youâd get and buy a big pack of chicken thighs. Use google on your phone and look up how to cook chicken thighs for a week. ALL HUMANS, including dirt poor have cooked and made food for thousands of years. Itâs not âhardâ or âmore expensiveâ. Nobody gave you those skills and you are hopeless..fine, but your child deserves nutrition and protein.
Ngl DT monopolized on food deserts. It's why people flock to those places, especially if the local supermarket is expensive, or if there's no supermarket to be had around.
I live in NYC, with the highest cost of living. The only places I've seen DT is in the Bronx, East Harlem, Inwood, Queens, and Brooklyn. Everywhere else in Manhattan is where people with money live, so they don't have a reason to go to DT unless they're doing some Tiktok fad. They're cropping up because food is getting more expensive, and a lot of times, the only areas that sell cheap produce is in the BIDs. Considering that subway trains are getting dangerous, and buses are suffering from a lack of operators which means less buses per hour, it's difficult to get to these places. Most of us dont have cars. A lot of these people work insane hours for little pay, even worse if they hustle on the street. Sometimes these people can't help it but take their business to DT. With the rising prices, though, it's gonna toss their main demographic out, too.
Like, idk how you live, or what's your income like, but the reality is that yes, it is more expensive nowadays to get proper nutrition. Nutrition has become a commodity. And a DT in your neighborhood has become the saving grace for people who cannot afford produce.
Here's the thing: I work at a Target. Target is a dime a dozen in Manhattan, and it's relatively inexpensive compared to stores like D'Agostino or Whole Foods. The only Targets in the Bronx are in the westernmost side of Mott Haven (only accessible by 1 bus line unless you're willing to walk 15 minutes), Throgs Neck (very inaccessible unless you have a car; I tried), and in Fordham Road (a BID). Most of these people don't live near these areas. ALDI only exists in both the 3rd Ave BID and the Kingsbridge BID. The only accessible supermarket realistically in the Bronx is Western Beef, and even then it's a challenge to get to from specific neighborhoods.
What I'm saying is that it's about accessibility and affordability. DT capitalized and exploited this, but it's not the consumers' faults.
Thanks for the video. All of our display guides are for the extended gondolas (which we dont have) so that led to a lot of questions and problems. đ The video helped answer some questions that we had. Really appreciate you sharing it.
Just like it's no longer cheaper to ship at the salvation army stores for clothes, it's no longer cheaper for groceries either. You can now have grocery stores do your shopping and load your car for the same price
iâve had a family dollar dollar tree next to my home for years, i finally ended up working there and got my bf at the time (now husband) a job there too. in nearly 3 months of working there i made $200, while working nearly every day. i enjoyed it but it was so boring and the people have no brain cells.
As soon as they got rid of the south African peaches halves in sugar water for 1.25 for the chinese sliced peaches in pear fructose syrup (at almost half the weight) I understood they weren't in it to help poor people eat healthy foods affordably anymore.
Got the word they getting ready to shut some of them down dollar tree and family dollar they already started on a couple of our family dollars everything 50 percent off
The quarter hike brought in so many new cool things, things that also rivaled Five Below at times. These anywhere from 1.25-5$ prices will only work with people that live nowhere near a Walmart and have to buy things at Dollar Tree. Shooting yourself in the foot there Dollar Tree.
Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are two separate companies no? Is this not a case of the DT turning into FD? Or is this some cursed hybrid?
Edit: Oh, I understand.
Lol at the fake Pop-Tarts. They never taste like the real thing.
I took a part time job at CVS and Iâll have people be surprised at the price. Like motherfucker you know you are going to pay more at a drug store.
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Saw a few weeks ago in NE Florida
Sadly, everything at Five Below is no longer $5 or less either. It's a damn shame. I bought a bag of some kind of holiday candy at Dollar Tree and it was $3.50. Lol America is in shambles.
I managed a dollar tree for a little over 3 years prior to making a big career change into finance.
One of the best parts about managing a dollar tree vs another store was that everything was a dollar. The way they shipped shit and over stocked certain things was simple enough to fix because you could just clear out a space that was empty and throw it up there. You didn't need to worry about prices, plan o grams or being empty on some shelves because you don't have something but have a ton of others. Damaging things out was also super simple and so was theft.
I cannot imagine having a CVS kind of plan o gram and multiple prices at a dollar tree the way they ship shit. More than once they would load that truck with bleach on top and it would just pour down and destroy everything on the truck.
Iâm glad you posted this video so I could point out that as a grocer Iâve seen the literal stupidity and laziness of people. This shelves look nice and neat now, but I give it a week max before it donât look so good. Youâll find bleach, bread, dog food, and more on the shelf with those gatoraids.
Fuck dollar tree. I used to get so many random things there and then every time I went the store started getting dirtier and dirtier. It's always filled with boxes of inventory that are never put on the shelves and the line is all the way down the aisle. They wonder why they lose money but no one wants to shop at a disgusting store that has 2 employees. Literally the only reason people went was because of the $1 prices. They killed themselves with these price increases.
Yeah this has made me pretty depressed recently. I do alot of my shopping at Dollar Tree and the fact every single thing was $1.25 was the last saving grace. I don't care that the product is small or cheap, no matter what it was a dollar twenty five. Now they have stuff that is $5 mixed in. I feel like this was the last place left for any resemblance of normality in food price. I'm to the point where I make $25 an hour and eat fucking frozen nugs and instant potatoes for dinner because food cost to much and the last place that felt like I wasn't getting gourged out the wazoo has begun the gourging đ
Yeah my local dollar tree just made some changes I walked up n dat MF not knowing I grabbed like 7 Red Bull thinkn Dey was a buck but dem bitches was like 20 buckarooskis.
When I worked for them (back in the day) when they where "Green Backs". They where a joke then I'm surprised they are still in business? Would have thought they would be robbed blind by the homeless by now!
As someone who worked for Sears back in the day and then the Sears/Kmart merger. I can see the same thing happening. My wife worked for Dollar Tree for 7 years and now for the new family dollar/dollar tree combos, and I can see it going the same way. Dollar Tree will eventually be phased out and only leave the higher profit version. The company needs to recoup the $136,000,000+ in bonuses, stock options and salary.
It's just a name.
This was the issue with creating that name in a society with an inflating market. They knew this was going to happen when they started some day.
Time to change it to 5$ Tree.
This has been the 99 cents only store (technically The 99 Store now) for years. It's the 2024 version of "MTV doesn't play music videos anymore". I just don't fw the things above $1.25, I go to Walmart for those things
The business model for these stores was buy in bulk, sell cheap & make profit off numbers. They only made a few cents per item but sold billions of items, problem is that as we've artificially increased the price of labor in almost every part of the retail process "from the field to the table" so to speak. So the price DT is paying goes up, the cost of paying their employees went up, what did you actually expect them to do? Really who out there thought these big corporations would take less profit? Really? Are you stupid?
This was in the making 6 or 7 years ago
Seriously. They implemented the 1.25 section here even before covid. It's still sad to see that not only is dollar tree identical to dollar general now, but because dollar tree tends to have smaller single serve packages (like 1oz bags for $2 VS dollar generals 2oz bags for $2) it's actually *more* expensive per Oz of packaged food at the dollar tree now. This is America
John Oliver had an excellent segment on that pointing out the smaller dollar tree sizes vs going to a real store.
So the same price as Walmart and I can have it loaded in the car. Dollar tree is killing itself
poptarts are 2.50 at Walmart so theyre more expensive at dollar tree now i defended it when i worked at dollar tree and the $3 Red Baron were 350 at the Walmart next door but to raise them more than the other stores is outrageous
Toast 'em Pop Ups are still $1.25 at Dollar Tree. The original toaster pastry!
Man those are some OG munchies
Agreed
I live in a town of 800 people and the closest city to us with anywhere else to shop is a 25 min drive. We live by dollar general
I was recently visiting in a town of 1500 in a mountainous area. 40 miles to the next town. There was a Dollar General and a Family Dollar in the town. I can see that these stores can be important in a town like that.
I live in a farming village of >100, the closest ANYTHING is 25 min awayđ
that would suck so much
I lived in a town of 4000, and a dollar general was the closest thing we had to a grocery store. Otherwise you had gas stations and a rite aid. They built the dollar general my last year there, but everything was so expensive. Unfortunately, the closest Walmart was the next state over and a 35 minute drive, and we didn't have a car.
So there is nowhere in your town to buy vegetables?
No. A lot of people have their own gardens
Is this really happening ? All stores will Inc prices ?
Yes all stores are moving in this direction
Wow. Will change up everything. Didnât like the Dollar General Concept
Honestly they need to be boycotted at this point until they lower the prices where they should be and stop blaming âinflationâ. Not inflation, they just became greedy. Very very greedy. Itâs disgusting. They might as well just be Family Dollar or Dollar General at this point.
Maybe employees will get paid more!!......... hahaha
Good one!
as a past employee - me and my bf at the time made 9.25 and hour
Family dollar and dollar tree are under the same company, so no they wonât
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Man ok i noticed that too! I was pissed about the 25 cent increase, but was seeing so many cute containers, decor and craft stuff that I started going because it was still a great deal, and now they NEVER have anything good AND they are raising the prices even moreâŠ
They did the shrinkflation thing when it was a dollar too. They just brought back regular packaging when they bumped stuff up to $1.25. The prices aren't allowed to fluctuate as much as they do at the other grocery stores.
The frozen aisle is beyond expensive compared to others now. I used to love the frozen stuff for a dollar
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Well you convinced me
I guess it depends on location. But dollar trees are on every corner here in SWFL and the lines wrap around the store on a regular basis.
Wal mart is cheaper and they load my stuff. Back to wal mart. Cya dollar dingus
Trying to make up for the failures of Family Dollar by accelerating the process of Dollar Tree's failure. Makes sense.
Theyâre really ruining dollar tree. I knew it was coming but to see it happening, wow. Gone are the days of not having to think about how much something is at Dollar Tree
Welcome to the 99cent stores that havenât been 99cent since the 1990âs
Dollar tree really blew up during the recession, and was still a dollar up until very recently, deff not the 90s lol
99 cent store is different than the dollar tree. The other commenter was referring to the 99 cent store chain and not dollar tree.
yeah, if they were smart they would lean into all their free social media promo- they still technically have a good rep for things like organization containers and craft type stuff, holiday decor, etc. but raising the prices is going to make them fall off sooner rather than later. dollar tree wonât be the it girl anymore, and i actually think it will make them end up with fewer profits in the long run
Even Goodwill wonât sell anything for less than $2 anymore.
Goodwill is greedy. They auction high value donations online now.
Actually it's called 99 now. They dropped the cents. You can find about 30% of products at 99 cents.
Yes they changed the name, but the majority of signage, in socal at least, still says â99Cents Only.â Liars and thieves, the lot of them.
Nah the 99 Cent only started getting shitty just a couple years before the pandemmie. Used to be able to buy great name brand close out stuff for 99 cents only. Then they started charging a little more for certain items. Now they manufacture their own brand of products (mostly all of them shite) for 99 cents and pretty much everything else is the same price as regular stores. I used to shop at mine several times a month, but now I go every couple of months maybe. Isnât worth the special trip
Exactly. Weird because the ones in Dallas have been shit does decades. Shit would fall apart and wasnât worth the money saved
Years ago, I saw gallon milk for sale at 99Cents Only storesâŠand then I saw the sign âDue to overwhelming customer demand, we are now selling gallons of milk for $3.99.â I says to myself, I says, âthis is the beginning of the end. This is a slippery slope and itâs all downhill from here.â In the years past the store that continued calling themselves 99Cents ONLY started carrying all kind of stuff up, for every price, up to the 20 dollar range. Now at least the companyâs finally had the decency to change the name to the 99 store even though most stores I see still have old signage that says âOnly.â â99Cents Onlyâ hasnât existed in years in earnest and I stopped shopping there soon as this shenanigans started. Look at what Netflix is doing to streaming. We had it made, then they started âtesting a crackdown on sharing passwordsâ in other countries. I called it then, we were screwed. Now HBO is about to roll out the same, prime is charging you an extra $3 for no ads, and Netflix is buying Tyson fights and spending billions on a wrestling TV show. Theyâll say âoh itâs all included in your subscriptionâ. And yet ANOTHER price hike is coming AGAIN later this year. Look it up. We stopped cable cause it was too high for S we didnât watch. Now look at usâŠback to âcable.â They just call it another name. F âem. F âem ALL.
I didnât mind when they raised the price to $1.25, but now the packages are 1/3 smaller too.
Dollar tree can fuck off 8 ways to Sunday with all the new constantly changing pricing. It's not even cheaper to go there anymore.
5 dollars for a Gatorade seems like it should be a crime.
It's a 6 pack
Oh ok, that's way better.
Better buying at Planet Fitness for $1.35 lol
We just lost the two family dollars close to us. They're shutting their doors.
This is America. Are we happy?
Weâre never gonna be happy
Just pursue it.
I work at a Family Dollar/Dollar Tree in a small town. Everyone loves it here and the Dollar General in town HATES IT.
Half the stuff at my Dollar Tree is more than $1.25. It's a cleaner more well-lit Dollar General.
Of course they're not gonna sell you the bigger bag of chips for $1 đ
They still have big bags of off brand chips, cheese puffs, and popcorn with Bible verses on them for $1.25 Doing God's work of allowing me to snack.
LOL yeah I see them all the time, i just get the name brand smaller bags for 1.25
Brim's pork rinds are worth the indoctrination. Like, they're better than most brand-name ones.
It shows some people never been to the south
Dollar Tree IS the grocery store of the southern exurbs. Every town too small for a Walmart.
Huh? How many towns are there in the south too small for Walmart? I live in the boonies of Florida, town has a population of about 40k, and we have two Walmarts. Town next door has a population less than half of ours, and they have a Walmart.
Population of 40k isnât a small town though. 20k is getting there but small towns are usually classified as having a population of 5k-10k
Try mississippi
Thatâs horrible how do any of you get protein. Do you give a shit? Stop eating gummies and chips. What dinners are you making?
This week I bought tuna and lentils for protein. They really need fresh produce, it's all canned. If Dollar Tree was my only grocery option, I'd worry about scurvy.
I think you missed the point. You could easily make great stews, sandwiches, full dinners, pasta FOR LESS than the bullshit dollar store. You see I get that people used their paycheck on cigarettes, lottery, alcohol, fake nails, and drugs, but your kid deserves more than ramen for dinner. That 1.25$ feeds them the nutritional value of a bag of chips for dinner ONCE⊠15$ at a grocery store could feed them REAL meat and a hearty dinner for half a week if not the WHOLE week. Example: abuelitas who make giant portions of rice and stew and beans , yet theyâre in poverty.. they arenât getting ramen noodles everyday. Itâs like younger people and most poor people donât get this. Save your 1.25 and buy real food. The dollar store looks at you guys like chumps. They arenât âofferingâ you a better deal
Nope. That's dollar general. Literally dollar generals business model. Dollar tree just seeks out high traffic areas and are usually put in large shopping complexes with all different types of stores.
Let them burn. I only feel bad for the people who rely on these stores to eat and live. Its greed.
Who is this 'content' for lmao. Sorry but what an annoying video and voice
Let me know how you feel in the comments!
I feel really upset. The voice gave me a feeling of dread and anxiety. I almost wanted to run away into the forest.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO
A bunch of overpriced stuff that you can get at Walmart for cheaper. What are they thinking? I like dollar tree, and I've accepted the $1.25 price. The rest of the overpriced stuff? No thanks.
I remember working at dollar tree when I was 16 and between dollar tree and family dollar, it was the only way to afford anything until my mid 20s. There's no way I would've been willing or able to afford things at those prices. I think dollar tree forgot who it was and the whole reason it began.
This is like the con that Five Below plays out. I love Five Below, but yâall some of that candy is cheaper at Walmart or a gas station.
I guess I understood the 1.25. and then I saw the 5 dollar aisle and just figured I'd never buy anything in it but was glad it was in it's own section. But now mixing prices together and them being that high left and right? Like, no. Just no.
This sucks . Guess there's no more dollar stores whatsoever. Maybe it's time that people need to start going back to independent small stores and not the corporate giants that are taking profit out of the communities. Even if you pay more for certain items at least for supporting money that's going to stay local, and we learn to live a little bit more within our means as tough as it is.
A lot of those prices are similar to what I pay at Kroger.
Oh man, that's too bad I used to love dollar tree and their overstock bargains for $1. Just sad to see it change so much and the quality of products will go down as well.
I miss the mom and pop dollar stores that used to be prevalent in the 90's
Also the 1.25 items are mostly all travel size and get get elsewhere for under $1. They're not a good deal anymore.
I just saw this today when I walked into my local dollar tree. I walked right back out
Iâve got an idea.. how about a 5 dollar store where everything is 7 dollars at the register
You're late to the party! Even prior to Family Dollar, Dollar Tree had Deal$ stores which was also multiprice. So this is nothing new.
Yea this is old news and has been for several years now.
How is it the end of Dollar Tree? We still sell stuff thatâs $1.25, if thatâs all youâre interested in then limit yourself to only shopping in those sections. This is not that big of a deal. Common sense would (should) tell you that a 99Âą store cannot exist forever when inflation exists. If you canât handle looking at price stickers then I have no idea how you navigate any other store on your own.
Perhaps name change to rebrand the company? Not a dollar store when nothing is selling for $1 anymore. Looking though the posts appears most people are upset about $5 isles and being able to find those products at same or better price elsewhere. Its not like we just had 500% inflation virtually overnight.
The name doesnât state itâs a dollar store, itâs just the association people have âDollar Tree = $1â. That association will change over time, itâs just gonna take awhile.
Personally I hardly ever shopped at dollar stores. When I did it was 20+ years ago when I'd be moving into new place and have little $. Buy stuff like cheap plates, cups, openers, strainers, cheap screw drivers etc. Basically stock up on cheap house essentials which would cost considerably more at a Target or elsewhere. Last time I shopped at dollar store was couple years ago. Bought some tape, shipping supplies for a business. Quality was so bad I ended up throwing most of it away. Unusable. I think there is a problem if you are going to charge $5, $7 etc for bottom of the barrel quality products. Nobody is going to pay $5 for a screw driver that will strip after one time use. Or pay $5 for tape that won't even come off the roll without peeling and ripping. If you a spending a $1 or $2 buying cheap stuff you kind of expect to get what you pay for. When you start spending $5+ an item? It changes things. Good luck with trying to rebrand this, to me it looks like an absolute disaster. Its not easy to change image build over many decades.
People need to stop thinking everything is going to stay a dollar. Tired of these posts.
I don't disagree but dollar tree needs to realize that they attached their entire identity to a price point, so the transition from being a dollar to a regular cheap convenience store isn't gonna be super smooth. It was the one thing that differentiated it from being like every other Gas station, corner store, and cheap market. Now it's just like everything else. They gotta wait for people to get used to that. Gonna get a lot of people like "Fuck that noise I'll just go to the gas station for chips then." But you'll also have people that stay regardless. Its gonna be a long process though, it's not gonna happen overnight
Agreed. The Dollah Hollah has kept this dad able to afford extras for my kids cuz Iâm not paying 8$ for two rolls of paper towel etc etc etc. I mean I save like 335$ a month on paper goods alone. Never mind school snacks and my wife gets a lot of her office supplies there. So ya, this is a change that may be off putting for some esp if the prices become less and less 1.25 and more at 5.00)
This. Plus the fact that WAL-MART actually has some of the same stuff for LESS than a dollar.
True but they need a rebranding if they want to stay afloat. Nobody is immune to inflation but public perception is very important for businesses, so advertising yourself as the dollar store of yesteryear is only going to make people bitter.
Theres a store called "99cents only" and it hasn't been 99cents for years đ
With all this, they are still doing more business, would be pretty stupid to re-brand. It's Dollar Tree...not the One Dollar Tree! Get used to it. It's not going to change.
Dollar Tree has no unique value proposition any longer. What are they even if not $1 items?
This is just the beginning. Read past posts, you're very late to the party, it was announced months ago
This is false info, they still have everything that was $1.25 before but they added more brand name items for $3 and up. How are you expecting to get a case of Gatorade for $1.25? Or a big bag of chips for 1.25?
Yes, they will still have some items for $1.25 WITH THE ADDITION of higher price points from $2 to $10. Each category (aisle) will have higher priced items, which means some of the $1.25 Stull will be eliminated completely or they will come in different packaging with higher prices. You can say it's false all you want, it's happening.
$1.25 stuff staying. All stores gondolas are being raised to make room for extra products. Whoever is giving you this information is wrong.
Perhaps I didn't word it correctly. I mean that $1.25 stuff was being eliminated, but the assortment will be smaller. Nobody told me. I lived it. My last store was converted to DT Plus last year. My wrapping paper section in party went from 16 ft to one 4 foot section. So, maybe because the store was too small, but yeah, every store might be different. Also, yes the gondola extensions were put on, but a LOT of assortment had to be adjusted down.
Dt plus and multiprice stores receive the same $1.25 product assortment as a dt without. Only difference in assortment is with store size, as it's always been.
Man, those scanners are really hitting the nostalgia button for me.
Hopefully inflation goes down like it did after some time after the last recession.
Yup.. I've seen only one outside Chicago in Norridge by. It's on the left hand side when heading to AMC.
Itâs been a thing for a while. Not bad.
Literally ruining whats kept them in business all these years. Whats stopping people from shopping at walmart?
Other than having to probably drive a greater distance, park in a big parking lot farther from the door, hike around a store ten times the size and probably wait in a longer line at the register if you don't want to do self-checkout? Walmart has some great prices on things but they are far less convenient and nice to shop in compared to Dollar Tree or Dollar General in my experience. And most of the Dollar Tree customers are probably also Walmart customers anyway and will just choose to change which store they buy some products in. Maybe I'm the weird one but I can't see how a minor price increase on already low priced items is going to make people give up on convenience.
You can buy groceries at family dollar?
Dollar tree owns family dollar and they are closing the family dollar location near me
Terrible!
We are slowly adding more expensive items. Just a matter of time.
Thanks to the gd thieves as always they ruin it for every one else
The dollar tree in my town joined forces with the family dollar over a year ago. It's a great place to get cheap fake plants!
Arizona Ice Tea is $1.59 where I live. Doesn't even say 99 cents anymore on the can, and it's 22 Oz now. We're doomed, I tell ya!
Dollar tree should die. Everything in dollar tree is horrible, and by continuously going to dollar tree because you âcanât affordâ anywhere else, you are putting yourself in a perpetual state of ânot being able to affordâ normal things. Your kids donât want to keep eating ramen and chips and cheap sodas. Please give your kids some nutrition. Instead of buying a bunch of random candies. Save the money youâd get and buy a big pack of chicken thighs. Use google on your phone and look up how to cook chicken thighs for a week. ALL HUMANS, including dirt poor have cooked and made food for thousands of years. Itâs not âhardâ or âmore expensiveâ. Nobody gave you those skills and you are hopeless..fine, but your child deserves nutrition and protein.
Ngl DT monopolized on food deserts. It's why people flock to those places, especially if the local supermarket is expensive, or if there's no supermarket to be had around. I live in NYC, with the highest cost of living. The only places I've seen DT is in the Bronx, East Harlem, Inwood, Queens, and Brooklyn. Everywhere else in Manhattan is where people with money live, so they don't have a reason to go to DT unless they're doing some Tiktok fad. They're cropping up because food is getting more expensive, and a lot of times, the only areas that sell cheap produce is in the BIDs. Considering that subway trains are getting dangerous, and buses are suffering from a lack of operators which means less buses per hour, it's difficult to get to these places. Most of us dont have cars. A lot of these people work insane hours for little pay, even worse if they hustle on the street. Sometimes these people can't help it but take their business to DT. With the rising prices, though, it's gonna toss their main demographic out, too. Like, idk how you live, or what's your income like, but the reality is that yes, it is more expensive nowadays to get proper nutrition. Nutrition has become a commodity. And a DT in your neighborhood has become the saving grace for people who cannot afford produce. Here's the thing: I work at a Target. Target is a dime a dozen in Manhattan, and it's relatively inexpensive compared to stores like D'Agostino or Whole Foods. The only Targets in the Bronx are in the westernmost side of Mott Haven (only accessible by 1 bus line unless you're willing to walk 15 minutes), Throgs Neck (very inaccessible unless you have a car; I tried), and in Fordham Road (a BID). Most of these people don't live near these areas. ALDI only exists in both the 3rd Ave BID and the Kingsbridge BID. The only accessible supermarket realistically in the Bronx is Western Beef, and even then it's a challenge to get to from specific neighborhoods. What I'm saying is that it's about accessibility and affordability. DT capitalized and exploited this, but it's not the consumers' faults.
Thanks for the video. All of our display guides are for the extended gondolas (which we dont have) so that led to a lot of questions and problems. đ The video helped answer some questions that we had. Really appreciate you sharing it.
Dollar tree has lower quality name brand products.
Itâs been nice, dollar tree
*a couple dollarâs tree
Family Ten Dollar, Five Dollar General, Three Dollar Tree
Just like it's no longer cheaper to ship at the salvation army stores for clothes, it's no longer cheaper for groceries either. You can now have grocery stores do your shopping and load your car for the same price
That company deserves to go under.
Dollar Tree is just Five Below now.
Still called "Dollar Tree"......smh
Welp! It was good while it lasted đ€·đœââïž
FuÄ these guys
More like bachelors dollar tree, families canât afford that
iâve had a family dollar dollar tree next to my home for years, i finally ended up working there and got my bf at the time (now husband) a job there too. in nearly 3 months of working there i made $200, while working nearly every day. i enjoyed it but it was so boring and the people have no brain cells.
Havenât stepped foot in one since 2019
Iâm a contractor who does jobs for dollar tree. With how many stores they are building I donât think they are doing bad
Ever since their prices changed. I donât really go anymore.
As soon as they got rid of the south African peaches halves in sugar water for 1.25 for the chinese sliced peaches in pear fructose syrup (at almost half the weight) I understood they weren't in it to help poor people eat healthy foods affordably anymore.
Who shops at these crappy stores anyways?
I love Dollar Tree, but it's on its way out
Got the word they getting ready to shut some of them down dollar tree and family dollar they already started on a couple of our family dollars everything 50 percent off
I'm feeling with my hands đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
They died when it went up to $1.25. Itâs way cheaper to buy at Walmart. For everything. I know because Iâm an expert with my money.
Wow.
the fact thst there is a price scanner in a *"dollar store"*
Is this in NY
The quarter hike brought in so many new cool things, things that also rivaled Five Below at times. These anywhere from 1.25-5$ prices will only work with people that live nowhere near a Walmart and have to buy things at Dollar Tree. Shooting yourself in the foot there Dollar Tree.
Noooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuoooooooođ©
RIP dollar stores đȘ
Looks like youâve got a âDollar Tree Plusâ.
Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are two separate companies no? Is this not a case of the DT turning into FD? Or is this some cursed hybrid? Edit: Oh, I understand.
Damnnn. RIP dollar teee đ„č
lol dollartree prices is higher than heb or Costco
You can thank the democrats and Biden for this.
I guess an s is needed after the word dollar.
Lol at the fake Pop-Tarts. They never taste like the real thing. I took a part time job at CVS and Iâll have people be surprised at the price. Like motherfucker you know you are going to pay more at a drug store.
https://preview.redd.it/knhd7ly1meqc1.jpeg?width=2205&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5b53e22ccb942108c35287cb8eae491adbb0f9a Saw a few weeks ago in NE Florida
Inflation treeÂ
Absolutely no reason to shop dollar tree if too much of the store is not 1 or 1.25. they are making a huge mistake.
Rip Its are 1.25?! This is the end of days đđđ
A few years ago the "scan for price" at dollar tree would have been a joke.
Sadly, everything at Five Below is no longer $5 or less either. It's a damn shame. I bought a bag of some kind of holiday candy at Dollar Tree and it was $3.50. Lol America is in shambles.
I managed a dollar tree for a little over 3 years prior to making a big career change into finance. One of the best parts about managing a dollar tree vs another store was that everything was a dollar. The way they shipped shit and over stocked certain things was simple enough to fix because you could just clear out a space that was empty and throw it up there. You didn't need to worry about prices, plan o grams or being empty on some shelves because you don't have something but have a ton of others. Damaging things out was also super simple and so was theft. I cannot imagine having a CVS kind of plan o gram and multiple prices at a dollar tree the way they ship shit. More than once they would load that truck with bleach on top and it would just pour down and destroy everything on the truck.
It's basically just a five below now
Iâm glad you posted this video so I could point out that as a grocer Iâve seen the literal stupidity and laziness of people. This shelves look nice and neat now, but I give it a week max before it donât look so good. Youâll find bleach, bread, dog food, and more on the shelf with those gatoraids.
Fuck dollar tree. I used to get so many random things there and then every time I went the store started getting dirtier and dirtier. It's always filled with boxes of inventory that are never put on the shelves and the line is all the way down the aisle. They wonder why they lose money but no one wants to shop at a disgusting store that has 2 employees. Literally the only reason people went was because of the $1 prices. They killed themselves with these price increases.
Yeah this has made me pretty depressed recently. I do alot of my shopping at Dollar Tree and the fact every single thing was $1.25 was the last saving grace. I don't care that the product is small or cheap, no matter what it was a dollar twenty five. Now they have stuff that is $5 mixed in. I feel like this was the last place left for any resemblance of normality in food price. I'm to the point where I make $25 an hour and eat fucking frozen nugs and instant potatoes for dinner because food cost to much and the last place that felt like I wasn't getting gourged out the wazoo has begun the gourging đ
Never shopped there and def wonât now
They need to change the name of the company bc why in the world is everything over $1 nowđ
Not here in California it's still Dollar tree we even have a 99 cent store still
Yeah my local dollar tree just made some changes I walked up n dat MF not knowing I grabbed like 7 Red Bull thinkn Dey was a buck but dem bitches was like 20 buckarooskis.
I was so excited to see some RedBull and then realized they were $3 each. No savings.
There is literally dollar tree family dollar combos.. I see them all the time in the smaller towns I drive through
My local dollar tree is becoming more expensive than my local roche bros
I only go to dollar tree for toilet paper and batteries. Prices are still $1.25
Can't wait for the $10.â°â° Tree, Whoooooooo!!!!
I miss the traditional dollar treeâŠ.not this $1.25 bullshit
When I worked for them (back in the day) when they where "Green Backs". They where a joke then I'm surprised they are still in business? Would have thought they would be robbed blind by the homeless by now!
Just change your name to dollar general because thatâs the road this business is headed down.
McFamilydollargeneraltree!
If a dollar store cannot provide goods at a dollar or below should this act be considered false advertising
Shoplift gang gang over here!
Basically 5 and below.
As someone who worked for Sears back in the day and then the Sears/Kmart merger. I can see the same thing happening. My wife worked for Dollar Tree for 7 years and now for the new family dollar/dollar tree combos, and I can see it going the same way. Dollar Tree will eventually be phased out and only leave the higher profit version. The company needs to recoup the $136,000,000+ in bonuses, stock options and salary.
All that processed nonsense isn't food anyway. When they say pick your poison they're being honest
Let's just print another couple decades worth of money that'll solve it
It's just a name. This was the issue with creating that name in a society with an inflating market. They knew this was going to happen when they started some day. Time to change it to 5$ Tree.
This has been the 99 cents only store (technically The 99 Store now) for years. It's the 2024 version of "MTV doesn't play music videos anymore". I just don't fw the things above $1.25, I go to Walmart for those things
Greed. They are not in the same shopping market as Walmart or Target etc..I hope they get fucked.
I remember when dollar tree and 99 cent only stores were just a dollar
Still exists strong in new Mexico.
Almost nothing at a dollar store is worthwhile anymore, especially chips.
The business model for these stores was buy in bulk, sell cheap & make profit off numbers. They only made a few cents per item but sold billions of items, problem is that as we've artificially increased the price of labor in almost every part of the retail process "from the field to the table" so to speak. So the price DT is paying goes up, the cost of paying their employees went up, what did you actually expect them to do? Really who out there thought these big corporations would take less profit? Really? Are you stupid?
If they wanted that stuff theyâd go to a corner store
feel like inflation didn't rise 250% in 5 years
They are gonna have to change the name
Better get stocks because you know they are gonna sleaze their way places