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Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices

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Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices

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RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 2 days ago
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How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
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A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Yep, another example of boots theory

    • ohlaph@lemmy.world
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      Boots theory leans on buying cheap repeatedly because that’s all one can afford at the time.

      The article is about inaccurate prices.

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