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Dollar Tree will change 300 to 400 items back to $1. Apparently, some items are priced lower at other retailers.

https://www.the-sun.com/money/8739399/d ... ce-change/

In Reno there is a Dollar Tree currently closing. It is on South McCarran Blvd. next to a really sad Raleys (former Scolaris). This has been a really slow Dollar Tree for years despite that it should do well given its location. The surrounding area is overwhelmingly lower middle class due to about 700 pretty cheap but also pretty safe apartments behind the shopping center, but sort of a mix between lower middle, solid middle, and upper middle within 3 miles of it. The grocery space would do a lot better as something other than Raleys, and did better as Scolaris.

This particular Dollar Tree has been there since the late 90's but is small. It received an interior remodel when they price increased to 1.25 as it still had "everything's $1" aisle hangers and painted all over the walls. The point of sale equipment seems to be brand new and for some reason they have 6 cash registers in this tiny store.

Their liquidation sale is interesting. They have random areas of the store 25 cents (hair accessories, some toys, some seasonal, cleaning supplies), some 50 cents (some seasonal, some toys, some candy), some 75 cents (all drug), and everything else full price.

Why wouldn't Dollar Tree just ship the items to another store.

Alpha8472 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2023, 11:40 am Why wouldn't Dollar Tree just ship the items to another store.

Easier to sell it at a discount than to repack it and ship it (especially if other stores in the area might have issues already, as seems to be the case with Dollar Tree at some times with stuff not getting unpacked/shelved)?

Given the typical state of a Dollar Tree store they'd probably spend more money trying to inventory the stuff to transfer it than they'd make off selling it at regular price compared to liquidation prices..

When the Dollar Tree out in Quincy, CA closed it had little notice and it packed up what was a very fully stocked store. No discounts.

The closing Reno Store has an Enterprise van rented to them to transport full cases of items to another nearby store after they close Sunday..

It seems Dollar Tree is having major problems around Reno. Unstocked stores are the main issue. However this store is by far the worst I've seen. And it has been this way for a couple weeks now.

I took the liberty of removing their caution tape one day and walked down the aisle and a couple days later went back and they actually put it back up. Pretty humorous.

Cannot believe this CEO after how he was at Longs on store standards very tough, hasn't cleaned this stuff up at Dollar Tree.

storewanderer wrote: ↑October 14th, 2023, 11:01 pm It seems Dollar Tree is having major problems around Reno. Unstocked stores are the main issue. However this store is by far the worst I've seen. And it has been this way for a couple weeks now.

I took the liberty of removing their caution tape one day and walked down the aisle and a couple days later went back and they actually put it back up. Pretty humorous.

Cannot believe this CEO after how he was at Longs on store standards very tough, hasn't cleaned this stuff up at Dollar Tree.

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I'm speechless!

So bizarre--last week popped into the Dollar Tree nearest us (inner-ring suburban Detroit in a former Franks Nursery/Crafts). Store was neat as a pin, had amazing service from the check out...she was truly old-school supermarket good (fast, friendly, well-groomed...just shockingly good experience). You could find, though, some interesting "value sizing" which would seem to say that they're going to have $1 items and $1.25 items...particularly noticed with fabric softener. They had 2 sizes of Suavitel (Colgate fabric softener)...one roughly 15-ish ounces and one roughly 11 ounces. At a glance they looked identical, but stood up next to each other they were clearly different. Seems logical that one was engineered to be $1 and the other to be $1.25. It seemed there were several items like that on the back wall. This store had the $3 and $5 frozen items. I didn't do much more shopping than food, home chemicals and greeting cards (still 50 cents) but was a very good experience.

I thought I might add, a few select items have increased in price. Sunglasses and reading glasses have gone up to $1.50. One location didn't have them marked with the new price, (others had replaced the signs) but they rang up at $1.50 (they sell a style of sunglasses that I actually like and I'm super clumsy with em, so I buy a couple pairs a year ). I also saw a sign saying Mylar balloons were also now $1.50. Supposedly spices were to be dropped back to $1 but I haven't seen any signs indicating such, and I haven't needed any yet to test that out.