• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    To be honest, having both a grocery store and a Dollar General near me, I actually prefer the Dollar General.

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      6 months ago

      As someone who has worked for Family Dollar (which is a part of the same industry (“discount variety store”)), I absolutely hate that industry with a passion and refuse to shop at any store like Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree, etc. That whole industry is even more predatory towards employees than even regular retail stores are. That’s how they get the items so cheap in the first place—aside from supply chain injustices (read: slavery, same as most other industries), it comes out of the workers, both in pay and workload.

      Anyway, I didn’t initially mean to go off on this spiel, so I’m sorry about that, and in any case my original point is still valid, I feel.

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        6 months ago

        That’s alright. I didn’t know about that, sorry about that. If the dollar stores were charities, I know I would’ve since there is a charity watch aspect of my job.