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R.I.P. 99 Cents Only Stores
I still can’t believe this. It’s been almost two months since the 99 Cents Only Store franchise announced that they were closing all 371 of their stores and filing for bankruptcy. I was so bummed when I heard the news. I’ve been a regular shopper at those stores since the 1990s. It’s perfect for small essentials like toilet paper and toothpaste. And there’s a large store near where I work, which…
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Hello!!! This is a little random, but I just wanted to share with you that the Dollar Tree has a bunch of these really cute little Transformers figures as well as some cute little mini plushies (It's Oppy, Megan, and Bee)
These are the figure:
(I literally cried when I got all of them)
Idk if you have any in your area but I thought it might be something you would like 😅
Other than that I just wanted to say that I love all of your art!!! (Especially the magical girl Oppy one 😭) Hope you have a great rest of your day :)
OGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT. I NEED THEM !!!!!!
#.txt#no dollar tree in mexico unfortunately 😭😭 nor have i seen these guys in any of the stores near me but damn do i want them !!!!!#they look so cute !!!! i would Squeeze them so hard !!!!!!!!!!#thank you for showing me this#and thank you for your very kind words !!!! i hope you have a great day !!!!! or night !!!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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I just found out that the British equivalent of “Dollar Tree” is called “Poundland.”
#not serious#British#american#dollar store#dollar tree#poundland#innuendo#reaction image#reaction pics#uk#united kingdom
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I still can't believe that, in the battle of the dollar stores, Dollar Tree won by doing absolutely NOTHING.
#fucking 99 Cents Store shutting down#I really thought Dollar General or Dollar Tree would shut down first
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#y’all know when it’s a Doing Things Day?#well today I slept in way less than I wanted to and then decided I can’t take a nap to try to reset my sleep schedule#so I went and did some sight singing of choral pieces with friends (lamentations of Jeremiah/o vos omnes and Armistice 1918 took. me. out.)#as in they went so well (helped that half the people had done them before)#and then picked up two things from buy nothing#returned my friend’s wrench set#convinced another sister to come to weekend warrior with me#got some shoes I needed and two nice shirts at the thrift store#got art supplies I needed at dollar tree and ran into a deacon from my church there and had a nice chat#went grocery shopping#ran into an old friend who lives in another state in the grocery store??#called my boyfriend for a while while washing dishes#touched up a painting#read my first Terry Pratchett book (Equal Rites - it was amusing and enjoyable but not super special to me)#(I know there’s so much more! just dipping my toes in)#made dinner and prepped some extra things for future meals#spent hours going through little things I’d saved and pasting them into a journal#now going to read and annotate Life Together before bed#is this what it’s like when you get up and stay awake????#is this what y’all do?
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so, uh. was i the only person who didn't know that the lonely wizard is canonically like 7-8ft tall?
based on every fan depiction i've ever seen i thought they were like. goblin size. they're nearly as tall as leshy.
no wonder magnificus put them in the forever box, if he ever actually taught them magic they would simply goomba stomp him on the spot to assert dominance as the larger mage. very cruel but that's just how nature works.
#inscryption#lonely wizard#what the fuck#STIMULATION#not cruel at all actually#get bent you dollar store christmas tree#your conjurations are mid and your moustache unflattering
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#terrifying#dollar tree#dollar store#yard#yard decor#solar power#png#random pngs#transparent png#transparent background#random#transparent#pngs#weird png#cute pngs#lawn ornaments#lights#animals#creepycore#creepy#oddcore#but wtf#seriously wtf#wtf is this
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Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores
Across America, rural communities and big cities alike are passing ordinances limiting the expansion of dollar stores, which use a mix of illegal predatory tactics, labor abuse, and monopoly consolidation to destroy the few community grocery stores that survived the Walmart plague and turn poor places into food deserts.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizes
"The Dollar Store Invasion," is a new Institute For Local Self Reliance (ILSR) report by Stacy Mitchell, Kennedy Smith and Susan Holmberg. It paints a detailed, infuriating portrait of the dollar store playback, and sets out a roadmap of tactics that work and have been proven in dozens of places, rural and urban:
https://cdn.ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ILSR-Report-The-Dollar-Store-Invasion-2023.pdf
The impact of dollar stores is plainly stated in the introduction: "dollar stores drive grocery stores and other retailers out of business, leave more people without access to fresh food, extract wealth from local economies, sow crime and violence, and further erode the prospects of the communities they target."
This new report builds on ILSR's longstanding and excellent case-studies, augmenting them with the work of academic geographers who are just starting to literally map out the dollar store playbook, identifying the way that a dollar stores will target, say, the last grocery store in a Black neighborhood and literally surround it, like hyenas cornering weakened prey. This tactic is repeated whenever a new grocer opens in the neighborhood: dollar stores "carpet bomb" the surrounding blocks, ensuring that the new store closes as quickly as it opens.
One important observation is the relationship between these precarious neighborhood grocers and Walmart and its other big-box competitors. Deregulation allowed Walmart to ring cities with giant stores that relied on "predatory buying" (wholesale terms that allowed Walmart to sell goods more cheaply than its competitors bought them, and also rendered its suppliers brittle and sickly, and forced down the wages of those suppliers' workers). This was the high cost of low prices: neighborhoods lost their local grocers, and community dollars ceased to circulate in the community, flowing to Walmart and its billionaire owners, who spent it on union busting and political campaigns for far-right causes, including the defunding of public schools.
This is the landscape where the dollar stores took root: a nation already sickened by an apex predator, which left a productive niche for jackals to pick off the weakened survivors. Wall Street loved the look of this: the Private equity giant KKR took over Dollar General in 2007 and went on a acquisition and expansion bonanza. Even after KKR formally divested itself of Dollar General, the company's hit-man Michael M Calbert stayed on the board, rising to chairman.
The dollar store market is a duopoly. Dollar General's rival is Dollar Tree, another gelatinous cube of a company that grew by absorbing many of its competitors, using Wall Street's money. These acquisitions are now notorious for the weaknesses they exposed in antitrust practice. For example, when Dollar Tree bought Family Dollar, growing to 14,000 stores, the FTC waved the merger through on condition that the new business sell off 330 of them. These ineffectual and pointless merger conditions are emblematic of the inadequacy of antitrust as it was practiced from the Reagan administration until the sea-change under Biden, and Dollar Tree/Family Dollar is the poster child for more muscular enforcement.
The duopoly has only grown since then. Today, Dollar General and Dollar Tree have more than 34,000 US outlets - more than Starbucks, #Walmart, McDonalds and Target - combined.
Destroying a community's grocery store rips out its heart. Neighborhoods without decent access to groceries impose a tax on their already-struggling residents, forcing them to spend hours traveling to more affluent places, or living off the highly processed, deceptively priced (more on this later) goods for sale on the dollar store shelves.
Take Cleveland, once served by a small family chain called Dave's Market that had served its communities since the 1920s. Dave's store in the Collinwood neighborhood was targeted by Family Dollar and Dollar General, which opened seven stores within two miles of the Dave's outlet. The dollar stores targeted the only profitable part of Dave's business - the packaged goods (fresh produce is a money-loser, subsidized by packaged good).
The dollar stores used a mix of predatory buying and "cheater sizes" (packaged goods that are 10-20% smaller than those sold in regular outlets, which are not available to other retailers) to sell goods at prices that Dave's couldn't match, driving Dave's out of business.
Typical dollar stores stock no fresh produce or meat. If your only grocer is a dollar store, your only groceries are highly processed, packaged foods, often sold in deceptive single-serving sizes that actually cost more per ounce than the products that the defunct neighborhood grocer once sold.
Dollar stores don't just target existing food deserts - they create them. Dollar stores preferentially target Black and brown neighborhoods with just a single grocer and then they use predatory pricing (subsidizing the cost of goods and selling them at a loss) and predatory buying to force that grocery store under and tip the neighborhood into food desert status.
Dollar stores don't just target Black and brown urban centers; they also go after rural communities. The commonality here is that both places are likely to be served by independent grocers, not chains, and these indies can't afford a pricing war with the Wall Street-backed dollar store duopoly.
As mentioned, the "predatory buying" of dollar stores is illegal - it was outlawed in 1936 under the Robinson-Patman Act, which required wholesalers to offer goods to all merchants on the same terms. 40 years ago, we stopped enforcing those laws, leading the rise and rise of big box stores and the destruction of the American Main Street.
The lawmakers who passed Robinson-Patman knew what they were doing. They were aware of what contemporary economists call "the waterbed effect," where wholesalers cover the losses from their massive discounts to major retailers by hiking prices on smaller stores, making them even less competitive and driving more market consolidation.
When dollar stores invade your town or neighborhood, they don't just destroy the food choices, they also come for neighborhood jobs. Where a community grocer typically employs 12 or more people, Dollar General employs about 8 per store. Those workers are paid less, too: 92% of Dollar General's workers earn less than $15/h, making Dollar General the worst employer of the 66 large service-sector firms.
Dollar stores also lean heavily into the tactic of turning nearly every role at its store into a "management" job, because managers aren't entitled to overtime pay. That's how you can be the "manger" of a dollar store and take home $40,000 a year while working more than 40 hours every single week.
Understaffing stores turns them into crime magnets. Shootings at dollar stores are routine. Between 2014-21, 485 people were shot at dollar stores - 156 of them died. Understaffed warehouses are vermin magnets. In the Eastern District of Arkansas, Family Dollar was subpoenaed after a rat infestation at its distribution centers that contaminated the food, medicines and cosmetics at 400 stores.
The ILSR doesn't just document the collapse of American communities - it fights back, so this report ends with a lengthy section on proven tactics and future directions for repelling the dollar store invasion. Since 2019, 75 communities have blocked proposals for new dollar stores - more than 50 of those cases happened in 2021/22.
54 towns, from Birmingham, AB to Fort Worth, TX to Kansas City, KS, have passed laws to "sharply restrict new dollar stores, typically by barring them from opening within one to two miles of an existing dollar store."
To build on this momentum, the authors call for a "reinvigoration of antitrust laws," especially the Robinson-Patman Act. Banning predatory buying would go far to creating a level playing field for independent grocers hoping to fight off a dollar store infestation.
Further, we need the FTC and Department of Justice Antitrust Divition to block mergers between dollar-store chains and unwind the anticompetitve mergers that were negligently waved through under previous administrations (thankfully, top enforcers like Jonathan Kantor and Lina Khan are on top of this!).
We need to free up capital for community banks that will back community grocers. That means rolling back the bank deregulation of the 1980s/90s that allowed for bank consolidation and preferential treatment for large corporations, while reducing lending to small businesses and destroying regional banks. Congress should cap the market share any bank can hold, break up the biggest banks, and require banks to preference loans for community businesses. We also need to end private equity and Wall Street's rollup bonanza.
All of that sounds like a tall order - and it is! But the good news is that it's not just groceries at stake here. Every kind of community business, from pet groomers to hairdressers to funeral homes, falls into the antitrust "Twilight Zone," of acquisitions under $101m. With 60% of Boomer-owned businesses expected to sell in the coming decade, 2.9m businesses employing 32m American workers are slated to be gobbled up by private equity:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/schumpeterian-terrorism/#deliberately-broken
Whether you're burying a loved one, getting dialysis, getting your cat fixed or having your dog's nails trimmed, you are already likely to be patronizing a business that has been captured by private equity, where the service is worse, the prices are higher and the workers earn less for harder jobs. Everyone has a stake in financial regulation. We are all in this fight, except for the eminently guillotineable PE barons, and you know, fuck those guys
At the state level, the authors propose new muscular enforcement regimes and new laws to protect small businesses from unfair competition. They also call on states to increase the power of local governments to reject new dollar store applications, amending land use guidelines to require "cultivating net economic growth, ensuring that everyone has access to healthy food, and protecting environmental resources.
If all of this has you as fired up as it got me this morning, check out ILSR's "How to Stop Dollar Stores in Your Community" resources:
http://ilsr.org/dollar-stores
I’m kickstarting the audiobook for my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.
Image: Mike McBey (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/158652122@N02/38893547595/
CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
[Image ID: A ghost town; it is towered over by a haunted castle with a Dollar General sign on it, with the shadow of Count Orlock cast over its tower. One of its turrets is being struck by lightning.]
#pluralistic#shrinkflation#institute for local self reliance#ilsr#dollar tree#dollar general#dollar stores#groceries#food deserts#kkr#pe#private equity#predatory buying#predatory pricing#Robinson-Patman Act#consolidation#monopoly#monopsony#care labor
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My Halloween/OFMD themed display table is ready. 🏴☠️
Yo @davidjenks rate my set up.
#ofmd#about 90% of this stuff came from dollar tree#the other 10 i had floating around or bought from the halloween store#yes those flintlocks came from the dollar store#they were bright orange so i painted them#sadly i did not find anything to use for cake toppers#but i'll keep my eyes peeled
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Crochet frog squish!
awww man i love how this is turning out! Its from scratch no pattern (if anybody is interested i can link what i have written as i worked its pretty scrappily written)
#Crochet#squishy#playable crochet#frog#Yarn#yarn crafts#Is this amigurumi?#fidget toys#Orbeez Ball#All the orbeez in my ball were squished when i got it qWq#Its still fun#Craft#crocheting#sensory#Is it sensory? Its a squish toy#I saw ones like this at the store but they were over 10$#Squish toy from the dollar tree for 1.50#to many tags
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also im pissed like. when did dollar tree's base price change from $1 to $1.25. like ummm........ and now there's an isle where everything in that isle is $3-$5 .... is this is not DOLLAR tree....
#dollar general still has it worse cause its not even a dollar store in there#but like ..... what ..... cmon dollar tree .....
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the contrast between elsbeth's tribe (nightsister... commoners? peasants? villagers?) fighting grievous vs talzin's clan (nightsister royalty) is so funny like.
elsbeth's clan: probably-Mother Selena dueling grievous with two fire sickles that melt/short out when hit by lightsabers (grievous didn't even split his arms! it's literally a leisurely spar for him). approximately three archers in the background. one single unit of B1s and B2s plus possibly a handful of commando droids. elsbeth hiding in a tree and falling out.
talzin's clan: Mother Talzin voodooing Dooku from the castle basement and then levitating in a giant electric sphere and zapping the entire droid army for like five minutes straight. Ventress dueling four-arms grievous for equally long. An entire army of archers casually force-speed/force-jumping over entire trees. Grievous' full fleet, a bomber squad, a unit of commando droids, magnaguards, state of the art experimental tanks, more regular tanks, and a full army of B1s/B2s. Daka long-distance-necromancing the entire clan and resurrecting every single dead nightsister in the entire region. Talzin finally not-surrending by turning herself into a force ghost and then promptly going to start a cult to revive herself/the dead nightsisters.
#star wars#tote#sw tote#morgan elsbeth#selena elsbeth#asajj ventress#mother talzin#the names are so funny too#like there's selena elsbeth and then Talzin Opress#its as if grievous destroyed talzins castle and then was like. hey. while we're here we should stop by the convenience store#and steamroll the dollar tree nightsister village#i wonder what happened to the rancor rider nightsister clan from the 1998 comic#they seem like one of the other powerful ones and they do have rancors and somewhat of a slave army#plus like. ros lai (i think thats her name) is still alive and probably became the Mother if the old lady died#and she is like. fully 100% force sensitive with magic and a lightsaber#if she managed to rebuild the clan after quinlan exploded everything then her clan would probably also be one of the most grievous-resistan#though it seems like talzins clan was *the* definitive Necromancy Clan so they wouldnt be able to rely on the dead army#and anyways i dont think they do those pod things either?#but they do have battle rancors#definitely wouldn't survive an all-out attack from grievous' full fleet/army#but if he showed up there later after having burned most of his resources to talzin's clan they at least have a chance of#him deciding its too much effort to hunt them too#especially when talzins clan were the only particular offenders
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So crazy and insane and evil that the most uniquely delicious gummy candy ever is something I can only find at mexican party stores on an unreliable basis
you do not understand. The flavor. They don't really actually taste like citrus? They don't even taste like any other gummy I've ever had. The taste almost reminds me of... jello somehow? Or those weirdly delicious vitamin gummies? Fuck. They're fucking good. And I can't find that taste anywhere else. idk what they're even called past "orange slice gummies". No they taste nothing like these
these make my mouth sting and stick to my teeth and very heavily taste like oranges. completely different candy. a false god. do u get me
#I am very autistic about candy#not in like an “I know how they're made and the history” way but like#I'm very particular about candies and have very specific tastes and like 95% of candy makes my stomach hurt#because for some reason my stomach doesn't like something about the like sugar content or whatever idfk#I think it's because although I love candy I don't eat it often bc I only like eating the specific ones I like#which are not exactly easy to find at least in a “I'm at the dollar tree or a regular grocery store” sense#does not help that we don't have a dedicated candy store here#so I've eaten so little candy as an adult that after like two sour gummy worms my stomach starts to hurt#kind of like how sushi hurt my stomach for most of my life#bc it was so different from what I usually ate that I had to slowly get used to it and after a few years I can eat it without stomach hurty#except the other way bc I slowly stopped eating candy regularly so now most candies hurt my stomach#autism has a fascinating effect on the way your body reacts to new food lemme tell you
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