Cheap and poor are the same thing.
Nonsense. I grew up around a few VERY wealthy kids, and they were fucking dicks. I stopped hanging out with them when they would refuse to ever tip servers or throw their pocket change on the table. Father made obscene money, mother was incredibly giving, and their kids bring their own soft drink into a restaurant.
The dollar store destroys communities, it’s their fucking business model. Fuck the dollar store
Here’s an interesting video on it: https://youtu.be/vQpUV--2Jao?si=EZA7136NtNf6zLKi
In short, local stores cannot stay afloat anymore when 30% of their customers disappear.
Local stores that were profiting off their customers and not giving back to the community lose 30% of their customers who weren’t benefiting in any way from a local store to more affordable options when available? Wow
See this vid from Wendover for more info
Remember when goodwill started raising prices because non poor people started shopping there?
Maybe don’t ruin the few stores that poor people can already barely afford.
Is this blaming customers who can afford increased pricing at Goodwill or is it blaming Goodwill for milking their customers once they realized they could get away with it?
It can be both. People don’t realize how much the way they spend their money has a lot to do with why things are the way they are nowadays.
The first time a company raised prices with a bullshit reason they should’ve gone bankrupt by lack of customers. But they didn’t because people have proven they’ll shell out money regardless of the price.
Why are you hating on poor people? Do you think punching down makes good comedy?
As a frugal person, I rarely shop at the dollar store because the shit there is so low-quality it’s a poor value even at that price.
Imo, it’s absolutely fantastic for things like cards and gift bags.
People only look at a card for like 30 seconds and then forget about it. It makes more sense to get one at 1/6 of the price of a regular one. Same thing with gift bags.
For most other things, everything in it is shit. But it has its niche cases where it’s superior like that.
Yep, their business model is basically to sell smaller packages for a low upfront price, taking advantage of customers that either don’t have the money to buy the big package or have limited transport options.
It’s another one of those things that illustrate that it’s expensive to be poor.
