Comments on: The war on the dollar stores https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 24 May 2019 03:53:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: GRA https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435935 Fri, 24 May 2019 03:53:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435935 Reminds of the “living wage” argument, or the raising of the minimum wage for the likes of fast food/Starbucks/Walmart.

]]> By: CV https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435897 Thu, 23 May 2019 22:42:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435897 Dollar Tree stores have good greeting cards (simple designs made by Hallmark), gift bags and tissue, party supplies, seasonal decorations, hair and makeup accessories (such as brushes) and cleaning supplies such as soap and buckets. I recently found a long plastic “drain snake” at the dollar store. Worked like a charm and saved me an expensive house call from a plumber. We recently had a wedding in the family and we saved a ton of money by shopping Dollar Tree for wine carafes, flower vases, ribbon, silver and gold frames (for signage), battery-operated candles and votive light holders. I’m a fan.

]]> By: Surellin https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435844 Thu, 23 May 2019 16:06:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435844 I live near a small town – anything that I can’t get at the grocery is either a dollar store purchase or it’s in to the Big City for me. Most recent dollar store purchases – a laundry basket, a wallet, reading glasses and some of those cheapo tools that they sell that I can keep in the car. Our town used to have a Ben Franklin store, which actually billed itself as a five and dime. After its sad demise, it was the dollar stores for us.

]]> By: David Foster https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435842 Thu, 23 May 2019 15:56:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435842 A well-written article on the dollar store industry from an investment perspective:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4229976-recession-proof-play-dollar-stores

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435841 Thu, 23 May 2019 15:55:25 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435841 One would think that “democratic socialists” would applaud the Dollar store phenomenon of providing inexpensive necessities as well as luxuries to the down-trodden masses, but that sort of appeasement of the proletariat just delays the onset of the Revolution.

AesopFan: One would think. However, the contempt progressives have for WalMart and its “deplorable” customers is no secret. For millions of Americans WalMart makes an important difference for their budgets. They don’t have the money (or time) to shop at boutique stores for organic, sustainable, fair-trade, etc. products.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435810 Thu, 23 May 2019 06:16:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435810 One would think that “democratic socialists” would applaud the Dollar store phenomenon of providing inexpensive necessities as well as luxuries to the down-trodden masses, but that sort of appeasement of the proletariat just delays the onset of the Revolution.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/chicago-dem-candidate-says-socialism-should-control-every-facet-of-our-life/

I shop my local (multiple) Dollar Trees every week.
They are often out of my favorite items.
Best place ever to take grandkids who just earned their first couple of bucks helping with the yard or house work.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435807 Thu, 23 May 2019 06:01:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435807 Art Deco on May 22, 2019 at 1:54 pm at 1:54 pm said:
… I cannot help but think the motivator for articles such as this is simple aggression.
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1130807313500188674.html

There isn’t a single item on the Left’s political agenda that does not injure liberty and autonomy.
A true libertarian should be in the trenches fighting the Left and its Democratic Party everywhere, with the full measure of their energy and passion. Not a single victory for the authoritarian Left should be tolerable.

The GOP is a VERY imperfect vehicle for driving to a state of greater American liberty, but at least they kinda-sorta know where it is. …

The Democrats are full-blown authoritarians with a bottomless appetite for power and control. There isn’t a single aspect of your life they don’t aspire to control.
…

Some [libertarians] are too obsessed with figuring out where libertarianism ends and conservatism begins. They’re dithering over whether to join the men, elves, or dwarves on the battlements of the West while a vast horde of left-wing orcs charges up behind them.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435799 Thu, 23 May 2019 02:22:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435799 There was a jazz pianist named Dollar Brand a friend turned me on to. Brand was from South Africa. Love the name. Dollar Brand.

Sadly he converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdullah Ibrahim, but he still played good music. One improv session he led became an anthem for the anti-apartheid movement. I’m not sure why. The music didn’t sound political, but I guess at that time and place… I still enjoy it.

I think of Dollar Brand whenever I drive by a Dollar store.

Abdullah Ibrahim – Mannenberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Get3oF_ibuo

]]> By: ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435793 Thu, 23 May 2019 01:49:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435793 Dollar Tree is specially vulnerable to China trade war tariffs, because their value is generally imported from China.

]]> By: ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2019/05/22/the-war-on-the-dollar-stores/#comment-2435792 Thu, 23 May 2019 01:48:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=87274#comment-2435792 Dollar Tree recently bought up Dollar General and the other Dollars. They took quite the debt to do so, but have finally begun making a profit until Trum crashed the markets with trade war fears… hah.

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