Dollar General Store

This is a Dollar General Market. It’s more than a typical Dollar General store.
It seems to be about three times the size of a typical location. The grocery section is about the same size as a typical company store.
I go between Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Big Lots, and Target most of the time to find bargains. Dollar General is not your typical dollar store. Most things are not $ 1.00 or on an even dollar amount. They have good prices, but without the artificial, custom package sizes that other dollar stores have – that end up being more expensive than typical stores.
We came in to get shoe strings. They have a small clothing section to the far left of the building, and the shoe strings were toward the end of a shelf.
Their deals on groceries are generally very good and they’re carrying more items, such as the Chili’s frozen items that I would otherwise buy at Raley’s. They have Mountain Dew Code Red in 2 liter bottles at only $ 1.00, which is much cheaper than original Mountain Dew at any other store I’ve found.
The registers were too busy but they called for help quickly, and that person arrived quickly and helped speed up service.

not bad for a quick cheap place. if you are expecting quality high end items and bottom dollar prices youre mistaken. if you are looking for something cheap and easy this is the place. lots of deals and cheap items. not bad at all.

Not a big fan of this store, but maybe I’m just not a big fan of Dollar Generals… in general. This location used to be a Mar-​Val super market. It was small, had a deli, butcher shop, and a bakery, and had friendly employees that nearly made up for their small selection of grocery goods. This Dollar General has none of those things. They completely remodeled the store prior to opening a couple years ago, but the place still seems old and dirty. The employees aren’t rude, but they are certainly not over the top nice or helpful. I prefer SaveMart or CVS for buying just about everything they sell at Dollar General.

The dollar general store is a bit misleading.
It opened at the beginning of 2012 in the old Mar-​Val grocery store spot in downtown Ripon. They did a lot of construction to change the fascade and made the interior look more industrial and warehouse-​like.
The store itself is NOT a dollar store by any means, even thought the name sort of indicates that. The store has groceries, along with frozen foods and some basic produce and beverages, as well as home goods, seasonal items, clothing, and drug store type products.
It seemed to have quite a few older people shopping around in it, which may be what they are targeting since the store is surrounded with the bethel retirement communities. The pricing seemed fairly in-​line with other stores. I would go here if I was in a pinch, otherwise I would continue driving to Target or going to a grocery store for more selection/​better products.