I was in a long check out line yesterday because only one person was working. Someone behind me asked the cashier if she had any help and she said, "just my manager but she's in the back working on something else." The person behind me said, "God Bless you for working because nobody else seems to want to. We've got that idiot, Biden in office so now I have to buy my groceries here to afford to eat. We need Trump back and everyone's afraid to say it. Well, I'm not afraid, I'm saying it to you all!"
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I want to take a minute to clear something up for any readers here: Dollar Tree is not a good place to go if you are struggling to afford groceries.
Their business model is weirdly small portion sizes and lots of processed products with long shelf life.
For many prices, if you do the math, you'll find buying the smaller portion Dollar Tree sells ends up being more expensive per serving than buying the bigger portion a grocery store sells.
Instead, if you are struggling to afford groceries, you should be shopping at a regular grocery store, but avoiding the "center aisles." You should be shopping for only the raw essentials: lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, and things like flour and plain rice. You should intentionally be avoiding things like boxed rice "kits," frozen meals, and, of course, things like chips.
Dollar Tree isn't a good place to go, but a place like Save A Lot can be. They sell real food (meats and produce), but their prices are lower than a Kroger or Publix. The meat and produce is lesser quality, but that's the cost savings.
We’re getting the same size dog food bag, same brand, for $6 less per bag at Dollar General. There are some other thing’s cheaper for the same size as well. Just got to price compare.
Dollar General is not Dollar Tree. Two different stores. Two different business models.
Dollar Tree's model is weirdly small portion sizes. Often they're from major brands and they're in sizes you only see at Dollar Tree. I don't even know how they get those contracts.
Dollar General's model is to pop up in food deserts where nothing else is around and sell normal stuff. Their stuff is usually price high for what it is, too, so you really are paying for the convenience of not having to go to the next town that has a real grocery store.
Of course, in both examples, there are outliers where something is cheaper at the Dollar General or Dollar Tree than it is at a normal store. But it's not the norm. And I've also noticed many times I've found that something I buy is cheaper at one of these places, I get in the habit of buying it there, then a couple years later I realize the prices have crept and now I'm properly paying a lot more and I would have been better off just going to the normal store from the beginning, since I'm not going to actively price compare every single time I shop.