1.00 N Dollars

This is always a cool place to find stuff you dont expect at a dollar store. They have a huge selection of things and some of the stuff is more than a dollar. but its always interesting to see what you come out of here with.

You tend to expect dollar store type places to be a little shady and maybe a little cluttered, but I’m just really hitting the bottom of the barrel lately. This one’s snuggled up in a shopping center with a Family Dollar, so I hope that it tries to maintain a little bit as I walk in.
This store is long and narrow, yet still maintains several aisles of merchandise. Everything is cluttered. Merchandise has no rhyme or reason for its placement. Most things aren’t priced and the ones that are have prices sloppily scrawled across the product in black Sharpie.
Product care is zero. I’ve been frequenting discount stores trying to find some cheap kid’s instruments for my classroom. I got really excited when I saw some little hand drums and tambourines priced around two bucks each. As I gathered them up, I realized that every single drum had broken heads on both sides. The tambourines were nearly destroyed as well. I started looking around to notice that there’s a ton of broken merchandise on the shelves. And we’re not talking things that are scratched or items that can be repaired. Most broken items are non-​salvageable.
The aisles are tiny. Way tiny. There’s no way this place is ADA compliant. I remember having to walk around retail set ups with a yard stick and if the yard stick didn’t fit through any area I had set up, I had to redo it to make it fit. I had a hard time moving through them and bumped into anything and everything with each step. It was claustrophobic at best. Nuts.
You’d think with a Family Dollar within ten yards of this place that it would try to keep a cleaner appearance. Family Dollar is in the same price range, but with organization, lighting, and no fear of the place collapsing on top of you. How you make the decision to come back here, I don’t know.