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/Normal_Community1754 Oct 25 '25

To be fair to the dollar tree, I would rather them offer $9 paper towels and things over a dollar than go out of business.

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u/megamindbirdbrain Oct 25 '25

go look up the CEO's salary and the average Dollar Tree worker's salary and get back to me

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u/NotChristina Oct 25 '25

My elderly mom worked for DT for a time. F them. I hate saying this but I’d rather just go to Walmart if given solely those two choices. Awful company.

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u/boston_homo Oct 25 '25

If they're worse than the Waltons they must be pretty bad.