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Your whole country is exotic to me, and I formed my opinion on things as a old adult. For me dollars store are the reliable place to buy toxic stuff, cleaning

Your whole country is exotic to me, and I formed my opinion on things as a old adult. For me dollars store are the reliable place to buy toxic stuff, cleaning supplies and in general non-food item. I like that it’s small and to the point. The food there make me sad, though. It’s almost exclusively crap.

busymom0 5y ago
> The food there make me sad, though. It’s almost exclusively crap. It depends upon what type of food you are looking for. If you are looking for branded things like pop, chips, chocolates/candy etc, then they are very good deal.
- middus 5y ago
  I think that's what was meant with crap
  - InvaderFizz 5y ago
    I would have assumed the crap they meant the sad looking meats and cheeses in the refrigerators. Dollar Stores are hit and miss. I needed some emergency earbuds for a trip. Wow, I didn't know you could manufacture earbuds that sounded that bad, even at the $1 price point. I am by no means an audiophile either.
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- IncRnd 5y ago
  That's a list of crap food, which might be what was meant. However, if you compare the ingredient list for a seemingly identical item, the ingredients (contents or quantity) will many times differ between a dollar store and elsewhere.
  - taftster 5y ago
    "seemingly identical item" - Can you give a more specific example of this? Like if it's two different brands of "chicken noodle soup", then I'd assume the ingredient list could/would change. But are you saying that a can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup in the dollar store is different from the Campbell's can at Walmart? e.g. the same brand ingredients change?
    - IncRnd 5y ago
      I meant the second. I can't say that happens in all cases, but I've specifically checked this for some food items at Dollar Tree, and the ingredient lists differed in those cases. It was about two years ago when I checked. I noticed an item in the refrigerated section at Dollar Tree, where the item was $1, yet I had just purchased the same item at the grocery for more money. I purchased the item at Dollar Tree and compared the ingredients. Then I checked one other item, as it occurred to me. It was idle curiousity more than anything else. I know there much be some difference between the item at a dollar store and the item at a non-dollar store, either expiration, item size, item ingredients, or something else.
      - taftster 5y ago
        Interesting, thanks.
astura 5y ago
My local Dollar Tree has excellent food - sure, no fresh vegetables but there are staples plus name brands that costs 2x-5x at the local grocery stores and other stuff that's not even available at other stores (specifics off the top of my head - Zapp's Voodoo Heat chips, I've never seen them anywhere else besides the dollar store). Obviously the stock is somewhat inconsistent.
qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
My local Dollar Tree offers 12 eggs for a dollar, a loaf of bread for a dollar, a decent sized bag of frozen berries or vegetables for a dollar, 2 pounds of rice for a dollar, a 26oz can of baked beans for a dollar. That's not exactly crap.
myself248 5y ago
> cleaning supplies Yikes! Cleaning supplies and medical stuff are things I will _never_ buy from a dollar store. Most of the cleaning chemicals have more fragrance than active ingredients, they never work well but the place smells like you cleaned like mad. I have to assume the medical stuff is just as poor quality, but I have no way of assessing it. It also bothers me that a lot of the cleaning products are packed in bottles shaped like drink bottles; an illiterate or merely distracted person could be in for a nasty surprise. We agree on the food, for sure. It never _says_ it's expired, but it tastes ten years old. One thing I always get at the dollar store is lint traps. The big box charges 3x the price for an absolutely equivalent product. Lint traps and office supplies. I don't think I've ever bought envelopes or binder clips anywhere else.
- canadianfella 5y ago
  What is a lint trap?

busymom0 5y ago

> The food there make me sad, though. It’s almost exclusively crap. It depends upon what type of food you are looking for. If you are looking for branded things like pop, chips, chocolates/candy etc, then they are very good deal.

middus 5y ago
I think that's what was meant with crap
- InvaderFizz 5y ago
  I would have assumed the crap they meant the sad looking meats and cheeses in the refrigerators. Dollar Stores are hit and miss. I needed some emergency earbuds for a trip. Wow, I didn't know you could manufacture earbuds that sounded that bad, even at the $1 price point. I am by no means an audiophile either.
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IncRnd 5y ago
That's a list of crap food, which might be what was meant. However, if you compare the ingredient list for a seemingly identical item, the ingredients (contents or quantity) will many times differ between a dollar store and elsewhere.
- taftster 5y ago
  "seemingly identical item" - Can you give a more specific example of this? Like if it's two different brands of "chicken noodle soup", then I'd assume the ingredient list could/would change. But are you saying that a can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup in the dollar store is different from the Campbell's can at Walmart? e.g. the same brand ingredients change?
  - IncRnd 5y ago
    I meant the second. I can't say that happens in all cases, but I've specifically checked this for some food items at Dollar Tree, and the ingredient lists differed in those cases. It was about two years ago when I checked. I noticed an item in the refrigerated section at Dollar Tree, where the item was $1, yet I had just purchased the same item at the grocery for more money. I purchased the item at Dollar Tree and compared the ingredients. Then I checked one other item, as it occurred to me. It was idle curiousity more than anything else. I know there much be some difference between the item at a dollar store and the item at a non-dollar store, either expiration, item size, item ingredients, or something else.
    - taftster 5y ago
      Interesting, thanks.

astura 5y ago

My local Dollar Tree has excellent food - sure, no fresh vegetables but there are staples plus name brands that costs 2x-5x at the local grocery stores and other stuff that's not even available at other stores (specifics off the top of my head - Zapp's Voodoo Heat chips, I've never seen them anywhere else besides the dollar store). Obviously the stock is somewhat inconsistent.

qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago

My local Dollar Tree offers 12 eggs for a dollar, a loaf of bread for a dollar, a decent sized bag of frozen berries or vegetables for a dollar, 2 pounds of rice for a dollar, a 26oz can of baked beans for a dollar. That's not exactly crap.

myself248 5y ago

> cleaning supplies Yikes! Cleaning supplies and medical stuff are things I will _never_ buy from a dollar store. Most of the cleaning chemicals have more fragrance than active ingredients, they never work well but the place smells like you cleaned like mad. I have to assume the medical stuff is just as poor quality, but I have no way of assessing it. It also bothers me that a lot of the cleaning products are packed in bottles shaped like drink bottles; an illiterate or merely distracted person could be in for a nasty surprise. We agree on the food, for sure. It never _says_ it's expired, but it tastes ten years old. One thing I always get at the dollar store is lint traps. The big box charges 3x the price for an absolutely equivalent product. Lint traps and office supplies. I don't think I've ever bought envelopes or binder clips anywhere else.

canadianfella 5y ago
What is a lint trap?