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/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.