primitives discuss Dollar General

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Oh my.

Ghost in the Machine  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 01:47 AM
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Dollar General to add 5,000 jobs, open 600 stores

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Discount retailer Dollar General says it will add 5,000 jobs as it opens 600 new stores over the next 12 months.

Shoppers have flocked to discount stores during the recession as they look to spend less money on their purchases. During the first nine months of its fiscal year$, General's profit surged while revenue rose 13 percent to $8.61 billion.

The company, based in Goodlettsville, Tenn., says it will add job throughout its operations.

Dollar General says it added 4,000 jobs in 2009. It operates 8,800 stores with about 78,000 staffers.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11934259

cutlassmama  (1000+ posts)       Fri Feb-05-10 01:50 AM
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1. It's a good store. Like the old "five and dimes" there used to be.

napi21  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 01:50 AM
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2. I like DG. They opened one about 3 mins from my house about a year ago.

I've never gotten anything there that I was unhappy with. The only problem I see is that most of those 5,000 jobs will be low pay.

MrModerate  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 01:52 AM
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4. This sounds good, but does anyone know about their employment practices?

Are these going to be McJobs, on which no adult can survive?

Kat45  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 01:53 AM
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5. Retail jobs usually are.

Hannah Bell (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 02:25 AM
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16. i'd bet they're worse than typical retail.

hfojvt  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 02:05 AM
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10. according to one person I talked to there they would be better off working at wal-mart, and turnover is fairly high there. I don't shop at the local one any more though, since they decided to treat me like a shoplifter.

TwixVoy  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 02:37 AM
#20 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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18. LOL

They are all full time jobs that pay at least $35,000 annually. They are complete with health care benefits and a pension plan.

They also have a strong union.

Tunkamerica  (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-05-10 03:09 AM
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19. lol, i doubt it, from working in retail for years and seeing the employees there. Maybe regionally they pay 35k; but here, with the help they have, 25k at most.

TwixVoy  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 03:11 AM
#20 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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21. I was being sarcastic

Minimum wage part time with no benefits.

ddeclue  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 02:01 AM
THE CLUELESS PRIMITIVE
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8. They sell really terrible quality merchandise (and unhealthy food) at these places.

and this is a sign of a tanking economy. The only reason these stores are booming is that they are incredibly cheap, even cheaper than WallyWorld.

ohheckyeah  (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-05-10 02:06 AM
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11. It's a great place to buy cleaning supplies, some toiletries and generic over the counter drugs.

Skink (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-05-10 02:11 AM
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14. Or Chinese counterfit merchandise.

smuggled in cargo containers.

Tunkamerica  (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-05-10 03:11 AM
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20. I'm sure you remeber the mexican toothpaste scare of last year.

these places are notorious for selling unsafe/unrecognized mechandise.

JI7  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 04:02 AM
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30. i don't think i would ever buy drugs at these type of places

But I'll bet the above primitive has no qualms about which drug dealer he gets his dope from.

Quantess  (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-05-10 02:11 AM
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13. Ah, good news. Some minimum wage jobs to tide us over.

It's better than nothing.

proteus_lives  (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-05-10 02:32 AM
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17. More jobs are always good news.

Hannah Bell (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 03:13 AM
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23. sure, even if they're minimum wage, no benefits, displacing slightly over minimum + some benefits.

as better retail situations go under.

sandnsea  (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-05-10 03:41 AM
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25. That's depressing news

They wouldn't add actual stores if they didn't think there were several years of sales to be made. It was bound to happen sooner or later, the investor class and the peons who serve them. Welcome to peon nation.

You know, this is just really odd.

To read the primitive comments, one has the impression that the economy has tanked.

But the primitives commented before January 20, 2009, that all would be fixed, that all would be happy and glorious, the minute il Duce Bo was our great leader.

January 20, 2009 was a long time ago now, and surely we all should be shopping at Nieman-Marcus as of many months ago.

One wonders what's up with that.

[Lord Undies]

The two lamps on our headboard came from Dollar General.

 

I bought them for $10.00 each because they were the perfect size and shape.  Of course, I "personalized" them with my handy dandy gold leaf paint, etc. and now they look like a million bucks.

My point being, Dollar General is OK.

As for what they pay their employees, that is between the employee and Dollar General.  I don't care.

[JohnnyReb]

JI7  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 04:02 AM
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30. i don't think i would ever buy drugs at these type of places

He buys all his drugs from Juan down on the corner....he has the certified good shit.

[ironhorsedriver]

I actually shop at DG. It's a hell of a convinence for a lot of items.

[Karin]

I go there all the time.  And, they are always hiring.  So, if you get canned from your job and need another one fast while you get on your feet, you can go visit your DG store.   Oh, but that would be a humiliating step down for a DUmmie with a PhD in music phillosophy (AoW spelling).  They'd rather lose the house.

The only thing I won't buy from them is girlie toiletries.  They water down the formulas and sell them on the cheap.  

[Thor]

We have two Dollar General Stores in my town of 22,000. Then there's another one across the river in Colbert, OK., all within 10 minutes of me. I don't like going in there unless it's just a convenience factor. (Our downtown area has lost most of its stores and one of the DGs is located in the downtown area) Their prices aren't all that good, sometimes more expensive than the local Walmart.

[The Village Idiot]

DG is expanding because its a discount chain, DUmmies and libs hate for things to cost less unless its the governments free ponies. Usually one step away from becoming DG glue.

[Alpha Mare]

They're just pissy because they're not qualified for these jobs.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Dollar General?

US Military Out of Retail NOW![/DU]

[GOBUCKS]

TwixVoy  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-05-10 03:11 AM
#20 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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21. I was being sarcastic
Minimum wage part time with no benefits.

I'd be willing to bet that every clerk at Dollar General makes as much money as DUmmy TwixVoy ever made at Target.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I love how a number of the posts lament the fact that these aren't high paying jobs.  If the minimum wage was set at $50/hour, the DUmmies would still find a way to bitch about it.

[debk]

I go there all the time.  And, they are always hiring.  So, if you get canned from your job and need another one fast while you get on your feet, you can go visit your DG store.   Oh, but that would be a humiliating step down for a DUmmie with a PhD in music phillosophy (AoW spelling).  They'd rather lose the house.

The only thing I won't buy from them is girlie toiletries.  They water down the formulas and sell them on the cheap.  

I shop there too.

For those women old enough to remember....they sell Bobbie Brooks clothes...warm ups, tops, some jackets. I have bought several items as it's the type of stuff I wear around the house. They go through the washing machine and dryer just fine!

I don't buy any toiletry or OTC med stuff items at DG, Dollar Tree or Big Lots without checking the label to see where they are made. I don't buy anything from China that's toiletry or food.

They are great places for cleaning supplies, candles, paper goods like plates, solo cups, aluminum foil, ziploc baggies, napkins, wrapping paper, etc.

I also get some food products there......

[Randy]

They're just pissy because they're not qualified for these jobs.

Probably jobs they've already been fired from and pissy because the company can expand without their advice.

[Freeper]

I love how a number of the posts lament the fact that these aren't high paying jobs.  If the minimum wage was set at $50/hour, the DUmmies would still find a way to bitch about it.

What I don't understand is, libs often when trying to tell us how wonderful they and liberalism is, mention that thanks to them we have a minimum wage. Yet when people get that same min wage, that they brag about creating, they complain. Which tells me if we all get minimum health care like they want they will be bitching about that too.

[The Village Idiot]

What I don't understand is, libs often when trying to tell us how wonderful they and liberalism is, mention that thanks to them we have a minimum wage. Yet when people get that same min wage, that they brag about creating, they complain. Which tells me if we all get minimum health care like they want they will be bitching about that too.

of course. Some pigs are more equal than others and then theres a group that squeals and squeals and will never get their wish of being more equal than others.

[GOBUCKS]

Dollar General is one of those casual stores.

[debk]

Dollar General is one of those casual stores.

oh...that's scary...

[The Village Idiot]

oh...that's scary...

For a lot of people in a lot of places Wal-Mart is the center of town. Your going to see people you know there. DG's are smaller and less trafficked.

[ColonialMarine0431]

I think DG is great for quick shopping. And it reminds me of the rural country stores we used to go to in Arkansas when I was a rug rat.