please remember that dollar stores like dollarama are designed to keep you in poverty, and drive away healthy and affordable options from neighbourhoods. avoid them whenever possible.
nothing positive can be said about loblaws or all the other either
I fucking hate Loblaws but I hate Dollarama more.
Dollarama is the endgame of late stage capitalism, it creates the problems that leads to its captive market.
I may be out of the loop/uninformed here. I only ever stop at dollar stores if I need a cheap greeting card or gift bag.
Is it just the low quality of products there in general that are designed to break, therefore keeping people who shop there for many things in poverty?
Funnily enough, they are the only ones that offer full steel flippers and other cooking utensils. A lot of the more expensive stores offer ones that are multi-piece metal+plastics, which don’t last as long.
It’s like their only good items.
Oh my no, it’s much more insidious than that. They move into small towns and undercut all the smaller local stores, eventually forcing them to close, then they are the only game in town and people can’t afford to drive to the next town over.
Oh my no, it’s much more insidious than that. They move into small towns and undercut all the smaller local stores, eventually forcing them to close, then they are the only game in town and people can’t afford to drive to the next town over.
Edit: there is a Wendover Productions video on youtube that gets into it in the second half.
Also the groceries are low-quality and packaged in such a way that sometimes they’re actually more expensive. I’ve started shopping Freshco, for now they seem like a decent Canadian option.
Yep.
$2-3 for an item seems great until you realize that it comes in much smaller packages, and you can get the same item in full size for only a couple dollars more at a regular grocery store.
Here they sell name brand stuff and its cheaper than loblaes so not sure that is valid everywhere
You just gotta be careful with the size you’re getting. $1 for soap looks good until you see that you can get 5x as much for $3 etc.
Yeah, I always look a price per ml, but our local Loblaws is insane for their prices. Exact products are overinflated at Loblaws. I normally bake my own bread or get it from a local bakery, but if we are in rush a dempsters italiano at Loblaws is $5 sometime $6.50. Our Dollar stores have the same loaf from $2.50-$3.50. Same is true on the name brand Pasta Sauce of dice tomatoes
Your edit double-post-replied. It’s a weird bug that happens on occasion with Connect. (I have no idea what your client is, but if it’s not a client issue, it could be a Lemmy thing? I dunno.)
Oh damn. You nailed it. I’m on connect. I’ll try and delete the second post.
Don’t delete it. I still see it, anyway. I’ll make another bug post in /c/Connect and link here as an example. Unfortunately, I have no clue what triggers this bug and won’t have much more data than this to give to the dev. :(
They sell name brand half the price of loblaws, so the commentor needs to explain how this keeps you in poverty
How is a dollar store designed to keep you in poverty? They sell name brand stuff at half the cost of Loblaws.
