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pionear
09/30/21 10:41:13 AM
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GanonsSpirit
09/30/21 10:51:36 AM
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Makes sense. Inflation has been over 5% for several months.
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Dmess85
09/30/21 11:45:05 AM
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This just in.... the dollar tree got cut down

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Zeus
09/30/21 1:35:08 PM
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Boo!

GanonsSpirit posted...
Makes sense. Inflation has been over 5% for several months.

Wait, what?

The mantra to which the Chesapeake, Virginia, company has held true for decades will now be only mostly true.

I read that as "cheapskate"

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Judgmenl
09/30/21 1:46:28 PM
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Dollar Tree regularly sells things for over a dollar.

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Zeus
09/30/21 2:03:29 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
Dollar Tree regularly sells things for over a dollar.

Not sure what Dollar Tree you've been to, but I'm not sure I've seen one that does that.

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keyblader1985
09/30/21 2:20:39 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
Dollar Tree regularly sells things for over a dollar.
Not any one I've ever been to. Is that a regional thing?

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Smiffwilm
09/30/21 2:47:27 PM
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They should make a store where everything is $3.50 and call it "Tree Fiddy", and when anybody asks how much something is, they say it's "about tree fiddy."

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chelsea_wtf
09/30/21 2:48:51 PM
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thats the way things go on this bitch of an earth

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trodi_911
09/30/21 2:58:58 PM
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Smiffwilm posted...
They should make a store where everything is $3.50 and call it "Tree Fiddy", and when anybody asks how much something is, they say it's "about tree fiddy."
It's kinda hard to find 8 story tall crustacean workers from the Paleozoic era.

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Smiffwilm
09/30/21 3:04:27 PM
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trodi_911 posted...
It's kinda hard to find 8 story tall crustacean workers from the Paleozoic era.
Perhaps Colorado?

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Criminalt
09/30/21 3:24:01 PM
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trodi_911 posted...
It's kinda hard to find 8 story tall crustacean workers from the Paleozoic era.
Crazy that you're not allowed to be that specific in job adverts.

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JixHedgehog
09/30/21 3:29:08 PM
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I better go stock up on those packs of sponges they sell

May as well get some disinfectant, a bucket, a car collar, some light bulbs and a pack of candy I've never heard of before

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Hejiru
09/30/21 5:48:09 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
Dollar Tree regularly sells things for over a dollar.

No, they don't. Family Dollar and Dollar General do, but Dollar Tree truly has nothing above $1. (Well, until now.)

But this was going to happen eventually. Dollar Tree as a company is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. Inflation goes up over time. What's worth a dollar today will be worth two dollars in a decade. For any other retailer, this isn't a big problem since they can just slowly raise prices. But Dollar Tree can't. It's their whole brand identity, it's built right into the name and plastered on signs all over the store.

So as production costs go up, they have to reduce the sizes of products instead of raising the price. Lots of Dollar Tree products have been reduced in size or quantity over the years. Alkaline batteries used to come in a 4-pack, now they're a 2-pack. Bleach recently went from 96oz to 64oz. But eventually you can't reduce the size any more. Do we start selling bleach in tablespoons? How do you sell less than one battery?

That's why they're stuck. When so many products cost more than a dollar to produce and they can't reduce the size any further, then they either have to stop carrying hundreds of products (which hurts their business) or they have to throw away their brand identity (which hurts their business.)

They've clearly chosen option B, but they're doing in a way to minimize damage to their brand, by labeling everything over a dollar as part of "Dollar Tree Plus" rather than just "Dollar Tree." Yeah, it's a marketing gimmick that probably won't work very well (for proof, just see everyone shouting "Dollar Tree isn't a dollar anymore!") but it's the least bad option they have.

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Zeus
09/30/21 7:50:39 PM
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While it's absolute garbage that they're going over a buck, at least it's not as bad as Five Below which has so much more leeway yet prices some stuff about $5. (And mostly prices stuff at $4 and $5.)

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Dmess85
09/30/21 8:35:28 PM
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Poundland > Dollar Tree

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eating4fun
09/30/21 8:38:57 PM
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Adjusted for inflation, basically $2 store in the 90s.

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Krow_Incarnate
09/30/21 8:54:19 PM
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Truly the end of an era

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Zeus
09/30/21 10:06:37 PM
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eating4fun posted...
Adjusted for inflation, basically $2 store in the 90s.

Was a $2 store a thing in the 90s? Because that sounds familiar.

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pionear
10/01/21 10:31:12 AM
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Judgmenl posted...
Dollar Tree regularly sells things for over a dollar.

Only Dollar Tree Plus stores does that...they have them in some states

This mandate affects all Dollar Tree Stores
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Criminalt
10/01/21 6:19:03 PM
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Should just rebrand as Dollars Tree.

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SantaKhala
10/01/21 9:59:05 PM
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Inflation... Thanks, Obama.

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LinkPizza
10/03/21 10:04:45 PM
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Smiffwilm posted...
They should make a store where everything is $3.50 and call it "Tree Fiddy", and when anybody asks how much something is, they say it's "about tree fiddy."

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Krazy_Kirby
10/03/21 10:10:50 PM
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Smiffwilm posted...
They should make a store where everything is $3.50 and call it "Tree Fiddy", and when anybody asks how much something is, they say it's "about tree fiddy."


if everything is priced that much then it would be exact, not "about"
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LinkPizza
10/03/21 10:37:03 PM
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Krazy_Kirby posted...
if everything is priced that much then it would be exact, not "about"

But you have to say about Like the prophecy says
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