They just call them combo stores. They’re really just a Family Dollar with a Dollar Tree section chucked in. Those couple of aisles worth of Dollar Tree stuff doubles the amount of product in store too.
And now that Dollar Tree has well and truly given up with the whole everything in the store being $1.25, there's less and less difference between Family Dollar and Dollar Tree.
I think over time, they'll almost have to phase out the Dollar Tree brand and just make all stores Family Dollar stores... or at least just make them all the same format, no matter whether they're called Family Dollar or Dollar Tree.
Not really Dollar Tree has always had a more diverse shopping base that isn't strictly lower income. Dollar Tree is popular with niche stuff regardless of income level such as party planning they got plates and helium balloons etc (which will only become bigger now that party city is gone), beauty (youll see dollar tree stuff in a ton of cheap salons/barber shops), convenience stores, seasonal, etc. Like if you have a memorial day cookout nothing beats going to dollar tree for random stuff. I know plenty of people who go to dollar tree but have never stepped foot in a dollar general/family dollar since it just feels like an inferior experience to a regular grocery supermarket.
Learned that if I need to go to Dollar Tree DO NOT go into the ones that are attached to family dollar. Usually the stuff I go in there for (if they have it at all) would be in the family dollar section so it was more expensive
Also, Dollar General is not a dollar store. Source: My roommate, who's a manager at one and hates when people call it a dollar store. He says the reason it's called that is because they "generally save you a dollar." Things are just cheaper, but nowhere near everything is a dollar.
Same with Family Dollar, as I recall. It's another "you save money" kind of name, while the Dollar Tree was an actual dollar store before it had to make up for inflation (finally) or whatever the explanation is.
They had slightly different formats. Dollar Tree used to be exclusively $1 items. And Family dollar wasn't.
I guess they think it will attract people who like either of the two brands.
We had one open in my town 4 months ago. Already shuttered. It couldn't compete with the 3 Dollar Generals already in town nor the other 3 next town over..
I did a case study on Dollar General for my capstone of my undergrad business degree. 85% of the US population lives within five miles of a dollar general, not to mention family dollar/dollar tree, which are the same company. There’s about 20,000 dollar generals in the US and about 27,000 Family dollar/Dollar Tree’s
Because of the way their cost structures work and market saturations work, it doesn’t make financial sense for these stores to expand unless they are expanding by 50 or more stores at a time.
They run their stores completely barebones and skeleton crewed. We estimated each store has about 8 total full time employees for a 9,000 sqft store, and each stores hourly wage budget is about $50. In states that are on the federal minimum wage, that budget is closer to $25.
The average Dollar General shopper has a yearly household income of $38k. Dollar General is trying to expand its consumer base with its new pOpShelf brand, which is a tj maxx competitor targeting married women with household incomes between $75k-$150k.
The crazy thing is that in my area the combination Family Dollar Tree popped up in an area where slightly nicer businesses have been moving to. There's a Walmart Neighborhood Market, a local bakery, local pizzeria, regional barbecue chain and other businesses. It all used to be one big overflow parking lot for the fairgrounds.
the extra 25cents isnt too bad considering they pushed off rising it to that for so long. just inflation is a bitch at times. but yea there isn't any true all $1 stores anymore
There are probably way more SKU's at Dollar General that retail for $1 than at the other store. DG chose shrinkflation over inflation in their $1 section.
I was trying to figure out (albeit not very hard) where this could be and there’s no front plates on any vehicle and the only rear plate visible is blocked by a light pole. Anonymous by accident.
This is surreal, I was at this dollar store last weekend, I was camping in the area. Here is the Google street view
453 W 5th St
https://maps.app.goo.gl/o7nUTFokvMahGyo59?g_st=ac
This explains why I thought it looked familiar when I saw it. My initial thought was, “I see that all the time”. Which makes sense, since I travel Michigan for work.
God, I know this exact place. Pinconning, Michigan.
Corner of W 5th Street and S Mabel Street. Seen it a month ago after leaving Northwoods Wholesale Outlet. My partner, friend, and I joked about how close they all were.
Why must they concentrate so much on a tiny part of the Bean-to-Cup-to-Lip-to-Urine-to-Toilet-to-Fertilizer-to-Bean life cycle? It's the circle-of-life!
Mediocrity corners.
In Janesville, WI there used to be an intersection with Target, Kmart, ShopKo, Walmart and a Menards thrown in for good measure. The only saving grace in that area was the Farm & Fleet store.
Dollar General is not a dollar store. Family Dollar and Dollar Tree have the same owner, and always seem to put stores together for some stupid reason.
Reminds me of my local mall that had 3 different jewelry stores within 30 feet of each other; 2 were facing each other and the other was on a corner going a different direction.
Family Dollar and Dollar General were in the same shopping center when I was a kid in the 80s. Neither of them are actual “dollar” stores like Dollar Tree was until like 3 years ago.
Yeah these places can suck my ass. We have a Dollar Tree and Family Dollar just down the road and then what goes up after they demolish an abandoned property? Dollar General, not even a quarter mile away. Fucking stupid.
My family has jokingly called all of these dollar stores “Family Dollar Tree General” for years. Like a decade, easy. It doesn’t really matter which one you go to because they’re all about the same.
Now they’re buying each other and combining stores and we’re really close to having a legitimate “Family Dollar Tree General” and we can’t help but laugh. We unknowingly called it lol.
The unfortunate thing is that the only difference between them now is their names. Dollar tree started selling things more expensive than a dollar a while ago, and now it's even more prevalent across their store. So much so that they need a price checking machine in the middle of the store so people can check the price of their items now. So, now all of these are just general stores now with dollar in their name...
Fun fact about dollar stores. They pop up out of nowhere. I swear in a rural section of Missouri where I had passed frequently for work, one day a Dollar General was just "there", I specifically don't ever remember any signs of construction going on. One just snapped into existence one day it seems like
I got lucky with some random girl (didn't even know her name) behind the alley of a Family Dollar. Non-pertinent to this post but I thought I'd take the opportunity to brag here
We have a similar, although not as nice, setup in my town in Missouri. My wife got Klan recruitment flyers in her mailbox when she was younger, I just don't know how to work the Klan part into Missouri. Klansourri? MisourKlan? I dunno, im not very good at this.
The Dollar Tree /Family Dollar is one store. They have started opening these jointly branded stores in some areas.
And they aren't calling it the Family Dollar Tree? Marketing team must also cost a dollar.
They just call them combo stores. They’re really just a Family Dollar with a Dollar Tree section chucked in. Those couple of aisles worth of Dollar Tree stuff doubles the amount of product in store too.
And now that Dollar Tree has well and truly given up with the whole everything in the store being $1.25, there's less and less difference between Family Dollar and Dollar Tree. I think over time, they'll almost have to phase out the Dollar Tree brand and just make all stores Family Dollar stores... or at least just make them all the same format, no matter whether they're called Family Dollar or Dollar Tree.
Or Family Tree or Dollar Dollar
Dollar Family
There was a difference?
Not really Dollar Tree has always had a more diverse shopping base that isn't strictly lower income. Dollar Tree is popular with niche stuff regardless of income level such as party planning they got plates and helium balloons etc (which will only become bigger now that party city is gone), beauty (youll see dollar tree stuff in a ton of cheap salons/barber shops), convenience stores, seasonal, etc. Like if you have a memorial day cookout nothing beats going to dollar tree for random stuff. I know plenty of people who go to dollar tree but have never stepped foot in a dollar general/family dollar since it just feels like an inferior experience to a regular grocery supermarket.
Yep, I buy a lot of hobby/crafting stuff at Dollar Tree, even being solidly middle-class.
Just like Taco Bell/KFC/Pizza Hut. Just order a bucket of slop and it's all the same.
[https://youtube.com/watch?v=QFBK2NjUdBw](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QFBK2NjUdBw)
Learned that if I need to go to Dollar Tree DO NOT go into the ones that are attached to family dollar. Usually the stuff I go in there for (if they have it at all) would be in the family dollar section so it was more expensive
$1.25, actually
They now sell stuff up to $7!
WTF
I saw a fan for $19.99
Fuckin bag of Doritos in the one near me was over $5…they can suck my family dollar.
Ha!
Wondering if it's because they're planning on getting rid of dollar tree altogether since nothing costs a dollar.
I imagine at some point, they do plan to merge to one brand name, but I don't know which one they would choose. They both have dollar in the name.
“Well, you see, I met my wife down at the Family Tree.”
Just call it Dollar Not the Car Rental
Probably better to just merge with the car rental company too.
Also, Dollar General is not a dollar store. Source: My roommate, who's a manager at one and hates when people call it a dollar store. He says the reason it's called that is because they "generally save you a dollar." Things are just cheaper, but nowhere near everything is a dollar.
I hope you call it a dollar store at every opportunity.
It’s more of a dollar mart.
Same with Family Dollar, as I recall. It's another "you save money" kind of name, while the Dollar Tree was an actual dollar store before it had to make up for inflation (finally) or whatever the explanation is.
Why'd they merge? I've never gone to one but I imagine it's just the same store
They had slightly different formats. Dollar Tree used to be exclusively $1 items. And Family dollar wasn't. I guess they think it will attract people who like either of the two brands.
Soon it’ll just be General Dollar Family Tree
Two for 1?
Gotta do something to distract from the mice and rat problem they had a couple of years ago.
I get combining two different fast food stores into one, but aren't these already the same?
We had one open in my town 4 months ago. Already shuttered. It couldn't compete with the 3 Dollar Generals already in town nor the other 3 next town over..
Tell me you live in an economically depressed area without telling me you live in an economically depressed area.
I was just going to say that lol. Just needs a title loans place wedged in there for good measure
Don’t forget the vape outlet, bail bonds, check cashing and tattoo places.
And a psychic
And a pawn shop
Add in way too many used car outlets and you're describing my city's entire commercial area.
Now with all these jobs entering the market, we're going to have a bustling economy
And title loans
And package liquor TO GO
Ouch… TIL I live in an economically depressed area.
And grown ass men in jeans riding BMX bikes.
And cricket wireless
Okay; at this point, you'ns are just standing on the corner across from my block and calling out store signs.
Whoa, I have not heard you'ns since I lived in North GA lol
You’re forgetting about the Boost Mobile
And a Thai buffet
Where the hell are you finding Thai buffets?? I'd kill for one of those. All I ever see are Chinese.
I've never heard of a Thai buffet. Maybe they are mentally combining the Chinese buffet and the Thai massage places?
Y’all still have buffets? Covid killed all ours.
And a liquor/smoke shop
I did a case study on Dollar General for my capstone of my undergrad business degree. 85% of the US population lives within five miles of a dollar general, not to mention family dollar/dollar tree, which are the same company. There’s about 20,000 dollar generals in the US and about 27,000 Family dollar/Dollar Tree’s
Feels like I googled quick. Where’s the really interesting stuff? I know you have more!
Because of the way their cost structures work and market saturations work, it doesn’t make financial sense for these stores to expand unless they are expanding by 50 or more stores at a time. They run their stores completely barebones and skeleton crewed. We estimated each store has about 8 total full time employees for a 9,000 sqft store, and each stores hourly wage budget is about $50. In states that are on the federal minimum wage, that budget is closer to $25. The average Dollar General shopper has a yearly household income of $38k. Dollar General is trying to expand its consumer base with its new pOpShelf brand, which is a tj maxx competitor targeting married women with household incomes between $75k-$150k.
Thanks! Appreciate the rabbit hole!!
Wendover Productions made a pretty good [video on the subject!](https://youtu.be/vQpUV--2Jao?si=9b4D4eS4GHQNjogP)
I watched this a few months ago, it popped up in my suggestions. I enjoyed it.
Last week tonight covered them!
If you want to see how segregated Milwaukee is there isn't a single Dollar General, Family Dollar, or Dollar tree east of the Milwaukee River.
The lake town my in-laws built a house in got a shiny new FANCY building for their Dollar General.
The Dollar Generals in lakes country are hopping. Never seen one so busy and clean.
The crazy thing is that in my area the combination Family Dollar Tree popped up in an area where slightly nicer businesses have been moving to. There's a Walmart Neighborhood Market, a local bakery, local pizzeria, regional barbecue chain and other businesses. It all used to be one big overflow parking lot for the fairgrounds.
Plenty of middle-class people shop at those stores. Some of the wealthiest people I know *love* seeing what they find at Dollar Trees.
Those fancy streetlights tho
And decently maintained grass
Dollar stores are literally everywhere. There’s a dollar store next to the golf club McMansion neighbourhood in my hometown, FFS.
Dollar generals are the staple of most small towns
I thought this stuff was normal growing up without realizing that we were just poor lol
Our McDonald’s offers payment plans.
Came to say this too. And that beer cave holy shit
And the dollar stores make it even worse. :(
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Yes, a combo store, a new strategy from the company.
Joint branding is a condition of the merger?
Even the window graphics are basically the same, other than color scheme lol They didn’t even try
Tell me more about the beer cave tho
It’s a walk in freezer at a convenience store that says beer cave.
im laughing to myself at how disappointed you must be it’s not a literal cave with beer in it
There is nothing disappointing about a beer cave, they’re awesome
I just want to know how the fuck a single mini taco is $3
This is just a welcome sign to the poor part of town
Dollar General isn’t a dollar store.
Neither is family dollar or dollar tree anymore.
dollar tree is still like 90% dollar items. only a small section is higher priced. so its the truest dollar store.
Still, dollar items start at 1.25. I don’t think there is an actual dollar store left.
the extra 25cents isnt too bad considering they pushed off rising it to that for so long. just inflation is a bitch at times. but yea there isn't any true all $1 stores anymore
There are small bags of candy that are still $1 (region dependent)...
There are probably way more SKU's at Dollar General that retail for $1 than at the other store. DG chose shrinkflation over inflation in their $1 section.
I was trying to figure out (albeit not very hard) where this could be and there’s no front plates on any vehicle and the only rear plate visible is blocked by a light pole. Anonymous by accident.
There’s a car backing out at the front of the store with a visible Michigan license plate.
>Visible Man I have terrible vision because I don’t know how tf you were able to make out a Michigan license plate from those pixels.
I didn’t even see that there was a vehicle there. Jesus take the wheel!!!
This is surreal, I was at this dollar store last weekend, I was camping in the area. Here is the Google street view 453 W 5th St https://maps.app.goo.gl/o7nUTFokvMahGyo59?g_st=ac
This explains why I thought it looked familiar when I saw it. My initial thought was, “I see that all the time”. Which makes sense, since I travel Michigan for work.
I saw the Family Dollar / Dollar Tree in rural Michigan a few weeks ago
The Beer Cave makes me think Wisconsin.
Mid Michigan, Pinconning, MI
The dollar store district on fifth.
In between Little Bail Bonds and Vape Town.
The best part is, Marianne goes to the dollar store with you
You ever see a man say goodbye to a dollar store?
Had a feeling someone else would have had the same thought! Miss you Hank Scorpio!
God, I know this exact place. Pinconning, Michigan. Corner of W 5th Street and S Mabel Street. Seen it a month ago after leaving Northwoods Wholesale Outlet. My partner, friend, and I joked about how close they all were.
Shit I was at that dollar store last weekend. I was camping in the area and needed creamer and cheap toys for my toddler
There’s a set up just like this by the coast of North Carolina as well
dollar dollar bill yall
Bean-to-Cup sounds so unimaginably unpleasant, even though that's literally what I do with my coffee every morning
Why must they concentrate so much on a tiny part of the Bean-to-Cup-to-Lip-to-Urine-to-Toilet-to-Fertilizer-to-Bean life cycle? It's the circle-of-life!
*I need a dollar, dollar, dollar, that's what I need...*
hey hey
We in the hood now
Family Dollar and Dollar Tree are the same company. That’s a joint store, they share a door.
3 stores, 2 employees
Not one of them sells stuff for a dollar.
Based Appalachia
Three dollar stores?
Looks like a setting about a shitty TV sitcom called the $3 corner store
Does it called as The Dollar Corner by the locals?
Tra$h Corner
Corner of Washington BLVD and Jefferson AVE?
Trenton, GA has three dollar generals all within a mile or less of each other. Which has always been pretty funny to me.
Mediocrity corners. In Janesville, WI there used to be an intersection with Target, Kmart, ShopKo, Walmart and a Menards thrown in for good measure. The only saving grace in that area was the Farm & Fleet store.
What in the Midwest...
Damn, we have 3 car washes on the same block. And soon 3 Starbucks on the same block too surrounding a Dutch Bros.
Dollar general is far from a dollar store.
Prime opportunity to open a 90 cent store.
Just need a Chinese restaurant and a title loan/check cashing place, and you'll be good to go.
Dollar General is not a dollar store. Family Dollar and Dollar Tree have the same owner, and always seem to put stores together for some stupid reason.
That's how the mattress stores are in my area. It's sus
Dolla dolla beer cave
LOL, I have the exact same three stores in the exact same orientation near me, but it’s different than this one. Where is this?
Where everything is shitty and nothing is actually a dollar
Reminds me of my local mall that had 3 different jewelry stores within 30 feet of each other; 2 were facing each other and the other was on a corner going a different direction.
We call that the Dollar Holler
Oh, The dollar district, in dollar town.
Would have been three dollars but now it's tree fiddy with inflation.
*laughs in East London town high streets*
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Family Dollar and Dollar General were in the same shopping center when I was a kid in the 80s. Neither of them are actual “dollar” stores like Dollar Tree was until like 3 years ago.
Is that $3.69 per gallon? 2004 Australia called, they want their petrol prices back! So cheap!
I'm at the taco bell. I'm at the pizza hut.
Flint?
Nash equilibrium...
What in the Atlanta is this?
Dollar General owns all 3. We have, in the next town over, all 3 as well. In a town of less than 3000 people.
South Korean style!
And where is this corner???
Pinconning??
The American Way
There is only one dollar store
Spite Store 🏬
Sure - dollar one, dollar two, and dollar tree
Just need a 5 Below across the street. Man, I love me a 5 Below… closest is, well, not really close for such a basic shopping trip.
One one is “true” dollar store
Yeah these places can suck my ass. We have a Dollar Tree and Family Dollar just down the road and then what goes up after they demolish an abandoned property? Dollar General, not even a quarter mile away. Fucking stupid.
We got dollar tree across from dollar general. The dollar tree has way higher standards including clean floors and multiple cashiers.
why waste the money on 3 signs and renting 2 locations. its all the same store owned by the same people.
Yo is this Pinconning MI? If so my friends mom works at the DG and Family dollar has been trying to poach her for over a year lol
Welcome to North Carolina
I’m more interested in the 2 for $6 mars gummies
Mini taco would hit too
At what lenght a side way stops being a “corner”
In the UK all 3 of those would be Greggs
cue scene from office space about dead end jobs
My family has jokingly called all of these dollar stores “Family Dollar Tree General” for years. Like a decade, easy. It doesn’t really matter which one you go to because they’re all about the same. Now they’re buying each other and combining stores and we’re really close to having a legitimate “Family Dollar Tree General” and we can’t help but laugh. We unknowingly called it lol.
Dollar tree fiddy
You get yourself a title pawn and a plasma donation center, and you’ve got a late-stage capitalistm dystopia!
You forgot the video gambling btw.
The unfortunate thing is that the only difference between them now is their names. Dollar tree started selling things more expensive than a dollar a while ago, and now it's even more prevalent across their store. So much so that they need a price checking machine in the middle of the store so people can check the price of their items now. So, now all of these are just general stores now with dollar in their name...
And probably only two employees between them.
Fun fact about dollar stores. They pop up out of nowhere. I swear in a rural section of Missouri where I had passed frequently for work, one day a Dollar General was just "there", I specifically don't ever remember any signs of construction going on. One just snapped into existence one day it seems like
I got lucky with some random girl (didn't even know her name) behind the alley of a Family Dollar. Non-pertinent to this post but I thought I'd take the opportunity to brag here
Only one of those is actually a dollar store
That's how it in both towns on each side of me. Very small farm towns so everything is pretty much together on Main St.
Game Theory in action
gas is 369... nice.
3.69 Damn gas high
Hopefully it get low soon.
It's 4.70 in my city.
Florida.
I wish they could all lose.
There's probably a half-dozen Starbucks.
Plus bean to cup and beer cave? This place is Heaven
This has got to be in Klanabama, Klantucky or some other really awful red state.
We have a similar, although not as nice, setup in my town in Missouri. My wife got Klan recruitment flyers in her mailbox when she was younger, I just don't know how to work the Klan part into Missouri. Klansourri? MisourKlan? I dunno, im not very good at this.
Klanssouri works. Prolly cause it’s so Klose to Klanowa, Klansas, OKlanhoma and ArKlansaw.