Dollar General: A Criminal Organization????
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They got into hot water with the Ohio AG for charging more for items that the sticker price listed on the shelves.
Not surprised. Whenever I shop in a retail store, I always review the receipt before I walk away from the register (people can wait, F'em). I find mistakes fairly often.
The fact that people don't put stuff back or demand the price difference be dealt with at the counter, says a lot about how observant people really are. I worked at gas stations for years, and this was a common mistake. Usually employees are understaffed and overworked and don't always catch up to updating price tags when the prices have changed. Every organization of this magnitude has corruption somewhere, and this is not new to anyone who has worked in retail. My local DG is pretty consistent with prices. Shop somewhere else if you don't like the way a store operates. Power of the purse, y'all
they are terrible about this
Every state should get them not just OH
Oh yeah, lets go after the Stores where the Price is actually lower than Walmart, and happen to be understaffed....
But when Walmart understaffs their Shitty Stores, and does price flips, they get an automatic pass???
Make it make sense....
I actually shop at Walmart the last 3 years since I have moved to small town in Midwest. I have not seen Walmart price flip and yes, I look at the price carefully. I caught Kroger, but not Walmart.
Maybe try looking at this a little more objectively. I have not been price flipped by them because I don't shop there, but if a whole bunch of people are saying this, could they be purposely programming their cash registers?
Well, I'm on the East Coast, so things may be a bit different....
It could come from Lazy Workers, or maybe an actual Price Change or something, but Food is mainly what was flipped....
I caught it once, and am still monitoring the situation, not that I shop at Walmart much anymore, but that's a different reasoning....
Realize, manufactures make "Dollar General sized" products just for them. Sizes and quantities you won't find anywhere else. Then they charge let's say $3.50 for a product that looks like the quantity is more than you get in a supermarket but in reality they're giving you much smaller product just more of it to make you think you're getting a great deal! Like I can get 8 candy bars in this pack for $3.50 and in the store for 6 it's $4.25. Well, those bars are 1/2 oz less than regular stores, and you're actually paying MORE than you would in a supermarket! Don't ever give them your money.
The bigger thing that popped up to me is how they’re basically the Walmartazon of the country - driving out the potential for organic store development to even happen by getting there first in a market-saturating 2 week span.
I’d also noticed that they’re every few miles in some places. Good dot connection by that lady.
M O N O P O L Y!
Here’s another funny one - a lot of old town squares in smaller towns have similar layouts and buildings. Was there a point where some organization went around and exploitatively contracted with larger families in rural areas to build these town squares at an industrial capacity? How did so many of them end up looking so similar and with such similar layouts?
Did those towns end up going into unpayable debts by doing this? Did they overdevelop? Was that what drove them to the blight they have today? Were their markets poached by cabal activities elsewhere?
On most food related items true...and I thought that was obvious to everyone. But I was stunned to discover that they sell Libby manufactured glassware, pint glasses, margarita glasses and tumblers for $1.25 a fraction of the cost of what you would pay from a place like Amazon.
They must buy glassware at ridiculous wholesale quantity that they can sell them that low.
They also give Walmart a run for their money on Red Bull. They keep their price point on the same level, always. I got a better deal at the gas stations before I gave it up.
Got you. I understand.
This happens to me regularly. I assumed it was because the store out here is ALWAYS understaffed.
I never watch because I usually pay cash and one item. Now I will pay attention.
Same thing at Walmart. Shelf says one thing and when you check out it is ALWAYS a little higher.
Just part of the "Somebody will sell you anything you are stupid enough to buy"
Always take a pic of the shelf price when you suspect it will ring up higher.
Happens so often at Walmart I have tons of pics on my phone of random products and prices, since it happens so often. Makes it easy for cashier to adjust price
I will now watching carefully
Damn near every store I go to regularly I've found items that ring up higher than the price marked on the shelf.
Labor shortages, lazy workers, I don't know but some places don't update tags. Even when products change locations.
I've always gotten things at the shelf price, I'll bring to the cashier's attention (self checkout) or talk to the manager.
Wow. Make me not want to go there at all. Now that I know.
And they specialize in selling bio engineered products to the unsuspecting.
I only buy rug from them. LOL
I guess that's why they don't stop shop lifters.
Really? Aah, no wonder.
One tried to come in at the front of my subdivision and we fought the re-zoning in such masses the council sided with us and rejected. DG attorney suggested they would be back to sue. Didn’t happen. The letter that came in the mail regarding the planned shopping center referenced a Teramore development. Couldn’t help but think it sounded like Ghislaine Maxwell’s Terramar project. I fully believe DG has something to do with 15 min city initiative.
You said Teramore? Wow. We should look into this. Yes, remind me about Ghislaine's project.