Biden's America: Dollar Tree fanatics protest new $1.25 prices on social media

[Counselor706]

Dollar Tree's recent decision to end $1 prices after 35 years and raise most items at stores to $1.25 has elicited an angry response from many loyal customers on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube,*CNN reported.

The criticism highlights the risks that Dollar Tree - the last of the big dollar store chains to actually sell nearly everything for a dollar - took when it abandoned its $1 brand identity.

Dollar Tree added the $1.25 prices to more than 2,000 stores in December (it has around 8,700 US stores), and Coresight said in a report that its "decline in shopper numbers appears to coincide with its price hike." The firm cautioned against an "overreliance on a single week's data point," but said the latest figures "may reflect a shopper exodus on the back" of the price change.

Dollar Tree raised prices because its business was pressured by having to keep everything under $1. Labor, transportation, fuel, merchandise and shipping costs have surged, squeezing the company's profits.

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[JohnnySavage]

There are three businesses every small town in wv has: Dollar Tree, Dollar General and Edward Jones.

I'm a Dollar Tree man.

 

[pecksniff]

I recall a Simpson's episode where Bart and Nelson are Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. They buy groceries at Apu's store, complain about the prices, and Apu says, "If you think my prices are high, check out that store across the street!" Pointing at the Dollar Store, with well-dressed ladies and gents going in and out.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

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Don't worry, miles. They have lay-a-way for people in your financial predicament.

ETA: Hahahahaha! The link is from a Chicago site which means miles was looking to post something shitty about Chicago but had to settle his poutrage on this nontroversy.