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> This was inevitable, but rather than maintain the status quo or even introducing shrinkflation, they should have made the jump to 2 dollars. Yeah, there's Fi
by tombert 5y ago
> This was inevitable, but rather than maintain the status quo or even introducing shrinkflation, they should have made the jump to 2 dollars.
Yeah, there's Five Below, where everything is $5 or less, and the quality of the stuff that they supply is substantially higher quality, and as a result I find it more fun to walk around there nowadays than Dollar Tree.
- 0des 5y agoNot to take it too far off-topic but Five Below's wordmark/logo is deeply unsettling.
- qq4 5y ago> deeply unsettling Care to elaborate? What about the logo makes you feel this way?
- ruined 5y agoit's those beady little °s
- 0des 5y agoBingo.
- benatkin 5y agoThe degree symbol is what drew me to the brand in the first place. It made it sound clever and novel. They might not need it anymore but I think it helped them become popular.
- ineedasername 5y agoThat's just keyboard elitism. You wouldn't be so bothered by them if they had a proper shift-key/fn-key press. Maybe you should step outside of your ASCII bubble an realize there's a whole world of Unicode to explore that can't be encompassed by a double key-stroke.
- jandrese 5y agoFor the longest time I thought it was a winter coat store. It wasn't until I saw beach balls out front one day that I gave them a second look.
- kergonath 5y agoTo me, it’s more that lower-case f.