I love how they blamed the customers.
As if they weren’t purposely treating employees like shit and understaffing.
Over pictures of stores overcrowded with unboxed products, Oliver described dollar stores as “less like functioning stores and more like American Ninja Warrior: Retail Edition”
“That chaos isn’t a one-off mistake or the fault of those stores’ employees,” he said. “It is the natural end product of how the companies behind these stores choose to operate them. And if you think it can be bad shopping at a dollar store, it is nothing compared to what it’s like working there.”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/20/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-dollar-stores
It’s not just that, while per unit things may be cheaper there, it’s because they sell things in smaller sizes.
Can never remember if something was John Oliver or Daily Show, but I think Oliver did a show on it this year.
Like a bottle of shampoo might be a dollars vs $3, but the one that’s a dollar has 1/4 of the shampoo.
The more you shop at dollar stores, the more money you waste.
If Americans are too poor to shop at the dollar store, I guess we might actually have to eat the rich.
Their prices get higher and higher and their stores get mismanaged from the top (John Oliver did a whole segment on this I recommend looking up). Their customers are financially constrained because they are gouging them.
Their customers are also often in food deserts. If they can’t afford to shop at Dollar General, they’re going to the soup kitchen.
Here’s a link to this excellent segment: https://youtu.be/p4QGOHahiVM
