Regardless, there's little sign of the dollar store boom fading anytime soon. Other critics say that dollar stores are bad for the neighborhoods where they open, because they can nudge supermarkets and local shops to go out of business, and even that they prey on low-income shoppers in an era of rising inequality. Careful shoppers have also complained the prices aren't that cheap (often way more than $1) - an issue that will only grow as global supply chain problems continue. Quality is always questionable in discount stores. Shoppers understandably turned to dollar stores en masse during the Great Recession, and the stores have been adding food and drink options to make them attractive one-stop-shopping alternatives to grocery stores or Walmart.Īs more shoppers browse in dollar stores, the more likely they've been to question whether the "deals" are actually good deals. The flip side is that the dollar store business keeps humming along. In 2020, analysts were expecting as many as 25,000 permanent store closures in the U.S., so it came as somewhat of a relief when "only" about 9,000 closed, per Coresight. That adds up to 7,300 new stores in two years - and 3,150 of them, or 43%, are dollar stores.
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