Dollar Tree

I shop Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Big Lots, and Target regularly. There are good things at each store.
Dollar Tree offers some good items that are difficult to find, like Dermasil skin lotion. Most everything is $ 1.00 but don’t be fooled. They often use special sized items, compared to other stores.
Bottles of Mountain Dew are a good deal for me, especially when some places charge $ 1.99 for those $ 1.00 bottles and most charge $ 1.49 or more. The snacks are good and the nacho and Jalapeño cheese sauce are a bargain compared to the similar Frito-​Lay brand.
Do your research and you’ll be fine.

I like to start with the good things but they are a bit self explanatory when it comes to the Dollar Tree; everything’s a dollar. In this case, however, that’s not always good. Stopped in last night for a few snacks and small ones that aren’t even a dollar in the grocery store were still a dollar here.
Due to it’s close proximity to my house I probably stop here once a month and it is good for certain things. I probably buy balloons 5 times a year just because they are so cheap and convenient here. If you need knick knacky crap or little party favors for cheap it is a good place to stop.
The store is typically unorganized and at best you’ll find three fifths of the things you are looking for. The thing that annoys me the most about this store is the fact that I can never get in and out. Employees are scarce and more than once I have had to stand there while the checker, slow as molasses, scans each individual item at a snails pace or is so busy chatting casually with another customer or employee they forget they are at work. If they cleaned up the store and had more efficient employees I would give it 3 stars.

I like the DT store’s office supply prices, much better than Staples and closer to our home. It has roughly one-​third the selection of the 99 Cent Store on Kettleman, but, then, there are fewer really obnoxious shoppers at the DT…

Sooo much nicer than the 99cent store

Cool that they opened one up in Lodi. It’s a dollar!!! Makes me holla!

This brand-​new Dollar Tree location opened up about two weeks ago in the Lakewood Mall where, the now closed, Lakewood Drugs (
) used to be.
Not really my kind of business… probably frequent these type of businesses just once or twice a year… a store of last resort, you might say. If no one else has what I’m looking for… then 99 Cents Only or Dollar Tree will have it!
Mixed reactions from residents who live in this neighborhood so far… but, I’ll bet the landlord likes it… that space since Lakewood Drugs closed has been vacant for over two years! It begs the question… If a Drug Store can’t make it here… how can a store selling everything for a buck afford the rent? The Economy is just incredulous…
With this opening, Dollar Tree has become, by far, the most frequented business in this part of the city. IMO, the parking is totally inadequate for this type of merchant at Lakewood Mall. It’s so busy, in fact, it’s hard for me to Bike through the parking lot, without playing Hit-​and-​Run with the vehicles at Lakewood Mall nowadays… Looks like I’ll have to change my Bicycle route…