Dollar General is cancer. Their prices are no better than somewhere like Walmart, the only "good" thing is the convenience, I feel like I can't drive ten minutes without passing one
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Their prices are no better than somewhere like Walmart,
And their products are smaller. There are Dollar General sized versions. So you end up with less product per dollar spent.
the only “good” thing is the convenience
How many party favors and discount happy meal toys do you purchase?
the depletion of savings built up during the pandemic
Built up savings? Is this a thing?
Don't you remember? They gave us all like $2500 or something one time. That's enough to live on for at least a decade for the poors.
I got "unemployed" during Covid and saw everyone bragging about how awesome it was that the federal government was providing extra money and it was like working a good job...
My state let me know they had run out of unemployment insurance several decades ago and I would get just the federal money, reduced down to the state amount, minus the state and federal tax from each check.
Yeah I got so fucked over it's still a shock that people say they legitimately came out better with more money.
bragging about how awesome it was that the federal government was providing extra money and it was like working a good job…
Revolt hush money. I'm sure this was ran through a simulation at some prior time, "how can we pacify a domestic population that might reject what we're about to do to them?" Money, of course.
Yeah, the pandemic was definitely not a "savings time" for me or anyone I know...
Much like 2008, the pandemic never actually ended. When schools reopened, every classroom in the nation was full of children on their 4th, 5th, 6th infection in a month. Thousands of people still drop dead from it every month and the US is, to this day, still experiencing 30% more per capita deaths than pre-pandemic.
Long COVID is proven to cause permanent organ damage, including brain function. We won’t know what it does to child development until decades from now but it’s already proven to increase risk-taking and reduce higher level function in adults.
The accumulation of capital continues.