Dollar stores have been around for a long time. As a child, I remember the joys of shopping for small Christmas gifts for my family in the little dollar store in the strip mall next to Walmart in the town where I grew up. I could buy a candle for…
We’re not a dollar store. Our name doesn’t have Dollar General in it, or Family Dollar, or Dollar Tree, or any other store. We’re an independent review site that has no connection to any retailer. In case this isn’t obvious in our name, we also emphasize it on our about…
We’re not a dollar store. Our name doesn’t have Dollar General in it, or Family Dollar, or Dollar Tree, or any other store. We’re an independent review site that has no connection to any retailer. In case this isn’t obvious in our name, we also emphasize it on our about…
We’re not a dollar store. Our name doesn’t have Dollar General in it, or Family Dollar, or even Dollar Tree. We’re an independent review site, something we emphasize on our about page and at the bottom of our site. Nevertheless, some people seem to think that we’re somehow connected with…
Each of the Dollar stores has its own house brands. House brands, or private labels, are brands exclusive to that store. They’re not separate companies, but instead are labels that the dollar stores use to brand products they contract with suppliers to get. Like many companies with private labels, we…
In November of 2021, Dollar Tree announced that it was raising prices on its products storewide. As most shoppers know, Dollar Tree prices nearly everything the same, and for a long time that price was $1. The extreme discounter, though, decided to raise that number to $1.25, with stores rolling…
Dollar stores such as Dollar Tree and Dollar General can be good for picking up staples such as toiletries, greeting cards, or snacks. One surprising thing about these deep discounters is that they can also be great places to buy inexpensive gardening supplies such as gloves, spades, seed starting trays,…
On April 14, 2022, Dollar Tree issued a recall for over 1 million hot glue guns due to fire and burn hazards. The Crafter’s Square Glue Gun were sold in the United States and Canada. Both Dollar Tree and its subsidiary Family Dollar sold the glue guns at different times…
Dollar Stores are … well, everywhere. They’re in small towns. Big cities. In the suburbs. In the exurbs. Even sometimes in the middle of nowhere. Because they’re small, the dollar store companies can build a lot more of them. Walmart, one of the biggest retailers in the world, has less…
A few years ago, some of my family members got interested in making fairy gardens. It started with my mom, and she then gave me a few items for my birthday one year to build my own fairy garden. Now, my children also set up their own fairy gardens each…
