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One weird thing I've noticed about Dollar General is that they seem to get special versions of many products. Like sizes of food items/containers that I've neve

• jasonhansel 5y ago
  IIRC, there are two primary reasons why dollar stores are cheaper: 1. Dollar stores do (as you say) offer products in much smaller sizes. This isn't necessarily bad for consumers: if you don't have the money to pay for extra product, it's to your benefit to shop at a store that lets you buy in smaller increments. 2. Dollar stores have no fixed inventory. They buy whatever brand is the cheapest at any given time, rather than trying to stock the same brands consistently. This leads to them often having unusual versions of products that aren't available elsewhere.
• sangnoir 5y ago
  > Like sizes of food items/containers that I've never seen anywhere else. Per-unit cost of dollar-store goods is often significantly higher than regular grocery stores due to smaller packaged quantities of the exact same product. It is terrible for poor people, but ridiculously profitable for the dollar stores.