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But would people still shop at dollar stores if they had more money? I sort of think so--New York is incredibly prosperous, and there are dollar stores everywhe
by smelendez 9y ago
But would people still shop at dollar stores if they had more money? I sort of think so--New York is incredibly prosperous, and there are dollar stores everywhere, visited by rich and poor.
- occultist_throw 9y agoI can't speak for New York. I've never been there. My experiences are that of portions of the Midwest in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Missouri. Larger places will have Walmarts and will have grocers and more industry. What I see time and again our little towns that are too small to support even a Walmart or a grocery have one or two Dollar Generals. I'm not an economist and not sure what to make of that other than that a Dollar General seem to be pretty cheap to set up pretty cheap to stock and I guess and implicit acknowledgement that these markets are failures for anything other than dinky stores. (edit: android voice to text mistakes)
- quxbar 9y agoUh... What? Not true. Living in NYC for the past 4 years, before that I lived in rural Ohio and Texas. There are no dollar general or dollar tree stores here, just kinda expensive mishmash-of-crap stores, Duane Reades and Rite-Aids.
- adamqureshi 9y agoHop on the 7 train. Goto jackson heights. Plenty of rink-dink dolla shops. Also check main street flushing.
- richardfontana 9y agoThere's Jack's 99 Cent store, which has at least two locations in midtown Manhattan. http://www.jacksnyc.com/ http://www.jacksnyc.com/
- shoover 9y agoYes. At the other end of Indiana there are small towns continuing to do well due to the RV industry (which only seems to grow). At least in the town I'm from the DG is always busy. OTOH in Indianapolis we also have dollar stores but not everyone uses them.