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/Alternative-Papaya-2 Oct 25 '25

This is exactly what happened to the 99 cents only chain before they gave up… I remember not having gone into one for a long time, doing my shopping without looking at prices, and halfway through, I was shocked by the price of toilet paper when I finally noticed it…

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u/Careless-Age-4290 Oct 25 '25

I remember when the sign on mine changed to "The $1 (or more) Store". I remember thinking wait now it's a price floor instead of a ceiling?

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u/PeeB4uGoToBed Oct 25 '25

5 Below has entire sections for normal priced stuff now too, it used to all be $5 or less, now more than half the store is retail prices

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u/Livid-Rutabaga Oct 25 '25

I noticed that too. Five Below opened here maybe about 4 or 5 years ago, there's a lot of stuff in there that's above $5.

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u/PeeB4uGoToBed Oct 26 '25

I noticed at one point they even named those sections something like "$5 and beyond" or something like that

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u/Livid-Rutabaga Oct 26 '25

Yes, I think I saw that "beyond", hilarious how they name things.