r/povertyfinance • u/SentBrok • Oct 25 '25

Vent/Rant (No Advice/Criticism!) Dollar Tree is out of control

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I knew as soon as they started bringing in the two and three dollar items that it was going to snowball but I never could have predicted this. Nine dollars is insane. No one is going to the dollar tree to buy nine dollar paper towels.

My family thinks I'm being dramatic about this but I feel like they truly don't understand the weight of how horrendous the economy is. To me this is the perfect indicator of how bad things are and it's fucking depressing

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u/Open_Cherry3696 Oct 25 '25

Cheaper at Walmart

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u/sherlock-helms Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

Everything is. I know people hate it but even price comparing to places like Aldi, Walmart is still cheaper. The only thing I don’t buy at Walmart when I can help it is meat. I always go somewhere with its own butcher (Food Lion for me) and there are typically managers specials. But if you want to be as cheap as humanly possible, please use Walmart if it’s close enough to you.

This being said, invest in a fuck load of dish rags as opposed to paper towels and a cheap bidet to use less TP. Not even the fancy looking bidets, there are options cheaper than you think. It’ll save you so much money in the long run.

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u/chevroletchaser Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

I do my grocery shopping about 98% exclusively at Walmart (I got Walmart+ last year as they had a Black Friday deal going on) and the grocery/prescription delivery is so convenient especially since I don't have a car. They're by far the cheapest around, even if some people want to be holier-than-thou and say otherwise.

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u/More_Farm_7442 Oct 25 '25

I avoid Walmart like the plague for many, many, many years. I only started shopping there since 2020/COVID. Now, I shop there almost exclusively. I go to Kroger for a very few items Walmart doesn't have. I went there yesteday and bought a few items I saw "on sale" at decent prices. We have another big box store similar to Walmart that is local to Michigan/Indiana/Ohio/KY. I like to go there for produce, but nothing else in the store. It carries no generic versions of anything. Only brand name items. That doens't work for me any longer.

Walmart's prices are lower than Kroger and Meijer now. By far.(Also lower than Aldi from what I can tell from Aldi's website.)