Prices Going Up At Dollar Tree

Yeah, you're right, I was so surprised to read it. I use to go there instead of Walmart, now I'll have to see.

They did. But now they also added $3 and $5 items. Before you know it, it will be nothing more than a Family Dollar with a different name. Of course, Dollar Tree owns Family Dollar...either way, I shop less and less at Dollar Tree because it just doesn't offer the same value and is becoming a totally different store, and not one I like the direction of.

@popciclecold Few items at Dollar Tree are actually cheap anymore. There are only a handful of things I will still get there.

You could be right. Something is going on. You said a mouthful, not seeing prices come down. I don't think no one has.

@porwest — and it also goes back to the time-honored lesson that people never seem to learn: NEVER name a franchise after a price. It didn’t work for Motel 6, 8 Days Inn, Super 8, Dollar General, or Family Dollar.

I think what they are doing is slowly converting the stores to be just another Family Dollar with a different name, and we all know what's happening to Family Dollar. It's failing. And who owns Family Dollar? Dollar Tree, so what's coming is going to be a store we no longer recognize, and it won't be for the better.

I think so too. Don't really want to see higher prices, but looks like it is unavoidable.

People are hanging on this tariff thing, but of course the OTHER candidate wanted to raise corporate taxes. You tell me what the difference is. Both are taxes. Both are collected from consumers. Both have exactly the same inflationary impacts. So, why were you okay with one and not the other. Probably because people don't actually understand how the economy and taxes work and who actually pays them. There IS one difference, though. Tariffs support American jobs. Corporate taxes send them overseas where taxes are cheaper. Not to say one is better than the other, but one hurts you more than the other.

@popciclecold Prices CAN actually come down, believe it or not, based on Trump's plan to do it. I know that will be met with, "But you support Trump, of course you'd say that." But the reality is that while inflation is here to stay, or in other words, the higher prices are. At the same time if you can REMOVE big factor costs from production and transport—say, energy—you can dramatically reduce costs and those savings will be passed on to consumers. Tariffs protect American labor and lowering energy costs reduces the cost to produce and move things around. That can lead to higher wages and better jobs, MORE jobs offered because let's say China wants to avoid the tariff. What can they do? Build a factory HERE and then they won't be tariffed. That combined with the 15% corporate tax rate Trump is proposing would be a BOON, not a problem. I think people are missing the point. You want a job at Walmart for $15 an hour or a factory job that pays $30 an hour? At the same time, why did we lose so many good jobs? Corporate taxes were too high so American companies closed their American shops and went to Mexico and China and other places where the labor was cheaper and taxes were lower. The tariffs cancel the benefit of cheap labor overseas.

Yeah, I know but they're certainly going up. I hate it.

@popciclecold true

Exactly.

If you own the businesses making the money, you can make money right along with them. They did invent something called the stock market, you know, and so with that, everyone and everyone has the ability to become a business owner and share the profits. If one isn't making money with the businesses, it's more because they choose not to rather than they can't do it. If you do not participate in the economy, you can't expect to be a beneficiary of it. It's that simple. Money is not kept from people. People keep themselves from it.

You are lucky. I'll soon start after Christmas.

Yeah, you are so right.

Yeah me too.

Ok. It looks like we won't either.

I agree with you.

Didn't say, only that it is raising problems.

I know this week, I saw a special on TV there' so much of it there is a number you can call that is 211. It is so very sad.

Wow, so very good. I need to see that TikToker.