posted on March 27, 2004 10:16:14 PM new
Over the past years the dollar stores are opening up right and left. Some products are good some are subzero but I do notice a change in other stores. i.e. Walgreens, a hardware store in my neighborhood, they are starting to sell the dollar items also. I asked the hardware store owner and he said he had to keep up with the times. Does that mean all stores will be dollar ones? What is your opinion?
posted on March 28, 2004 12:12:35 AM new
We have two within a block of each other here. They are a great place to pick up zip ties and the vanilla scented dryer sheets I like from Mexico that no one else carries but other than that and candles (I'd go broke buying full priced ones the way I go thru candles) I don't usually shop there. I don't see to large of a proliferation of them. They may have cheap tools but their tools are cheap I picked up a set of 99 hhex wrenches when I couldn't find mine and the hardware store was closed and had killed the one I was using off within about 2 dozen bolts - they are soft and rounded out in no time.
Oh yeah - I also get the small balloons I use as box fillers there mainly because no one else downtown usually has them.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
[ edited by fenix03 on Mar 28, 2004 12:12 AM ]
posted on March 28, 2004 05:06:06 AM new
I go to the dollar store. We have a large one here. They sell some of the detergent I usually buy for much less. I wouldn't buy things there are you need to last, though.
posted on March 28, 2004 05:53:39 AM new
99 cents only store is where you find a wide variety of goods from kitchen ware,underwear,cuticle scissors,canned goods,frozen goods,dry goods.
they even have 5 gallons mustard for 99 cents.
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posted on March 28, 2004 07:03:53 AM new
What a great idea, fenix...small balloons as box fillers!
Our grocery stores may vote to go on strike this week so I may check one of these dollar stores out while I'm looking for a non striking grocery store. I wasn't aware that dollar stores had such a wide variety of items until I read this thread.
posted on March 28, 2004 09:42:25 AM new
I have to tell you a story about my Husband at the Dollar Store. BTW it is his favorite store. We had to get a mylar balloon for our Granddaughters Birthday and of course they are only a dollar there. Well we shopped around. Left and about 2 hours later my husband notice his 14k ring had fallen off his finger. So we backtracked and the last place was the dollar store. He went in there asked nobody say it. Walked around looking on the floor and the places he had been, No ring. Then he happened to look in a 99 cent box of rings and low and behold there it was. The clerk said she thought it had fallen out of the box didn't take a good look at it and put it back in the box. He was one lucky person.
Dollar stores are stores that buy going out of business stock. I think the best buy is the gift bags. Don't you just hate it when you go to pick up an item, especially at the goodwill, it says k collectibles, they have $4,99 on it and you know it came from the dollar store. We have 5 dollar stores in our City. Soon to be the 3rd largest city in Wisconsin.
posted on March 28, 2004 10:30:24 AM newOur grocery stores may vote to go on strike this week so I may check one of these dollar stores out while I'm looking for a non striking grocery store.
Be very careful about buying foodstuffs at a dollar store. They tend to pick up things that are near the end of their expiration date.
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posted on March 28, 2004 05:53:49 PM new
I do have to make a suggestion. Latex balloons should not be used in packaging and the reason is that many people are allergic to Latex and if they don't know they are there it could be a disaster.
posted on March 28, 2004 06:23:12 PM new
this is true,cakemix,eggs etc,you have to read the expiration date.
but i picked up a pair of cuticle scissors made in korea for 99 cents and they are okay.
-sig file -------we eat to live,not live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin
I picked up a set of 99 hhex wrenches when I couldn't find mine and the hardware store was closed and had killed the one I was using off within about 2 dozen bolts - they are soft and rounded out in no time.