Dollar General

It’s 7PM on a Wednesday and I need a few items from that wide category known as «sundries». It’s on my way, a beacon, a brightly lit storefront on the south side of a modest section of McDowell at 39^th Ave. I turn around and go back. It’s a new store, a standalone with its own parking lot, a few live shrubs for greenery, and a decently attractive building. The inside is bright and spotlessly clean from polished concrete floor to ceiling.
Three separate employees ask if I’m finding everything alright or if they can help me find anything. The only thing I ask for, the young man doesn’t just tell me where it is, but stops what he’s doing and leads me there. Not bad for a semi-​dollar store, and in fact would be an improvement for many way-​more-​than-​a-​dollar stores.
It’s not a large store but every aisle is packed with neatly organized stock or in the process of being re-​organizing by employees after a long, busy day. It’s floor-​to-​nigh ceiling household laundry and cleaning supplies, snack foods, beverages, paper plates, coat hangers, storage containers, pet supplies, toys, school and office supplies, bath and beauty products, OTC meds, first aid and last rites supplies (bandages and cigarettes), and a modest selection of grocery items, fresh, canned, and frozen, and more.
Everything is not a dollar; I see goods ranging from less than $ 1 to $ 5, and they may go higher, brand name, off-​brand, and house brand alike appear to offer good value. The DG house brand products appear to offer great value. I can’t speak as to their quality in general, but I can vouch that the DG tissue at $ 1.50 for 224, if not quite Kleenex brand soft, is sufficiently soft as to not be suitable for even the lightest home sanding needs, and in fact, is not coarse at all.
And THREE employees asked if they could help. I salute the General. This one and its employees at least.