Dollar Store Demise: Episode 1677
Full Metal Ox Day 1612
Tuesday 29, July 2025
Serenity Year Episode 1677
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Dollar Store Demise
It’s a travel Tuesday friends. On the train again heading north again. Nu Liphe got me moving around. We have the resources for now. Time is a resource. Scheduled for 30 hours. One train. No transfer. We thought about doing a piece of blurry train scenery and images of leg room, but we dug up this pending piece about Dollar Stores.
The development of the American shopping experience is somewhat interesting. Back in the day, before my day, an enterprising salesman had the idea of selling off extra inventory for a nickle or a dime. He took the idea to his boss who rejected it. So dude started his own thing. This is how the Five & Dime stores came into existence.
US currency is designed to decline in value annually, (inflation) so stuff became more expensive. A dime didn’t go as far. With the development of plastics manufacturing toys and stuff became less expensive. Dollar Stores replaced the 5 & Dimes, and now we have this franchise called “Five Below.” The names of the stores reflect the economic mismanagement of the system. (Hint, it’s managed mismanagement.
Anyway, just before I departed my small west Miami enclave last time around the Dollar General store had closed. It lasted maybe a year or two. Grand opening. Grand closing. (I like their candles). When I arrived in Philly, I noticed the DG in my border neighborhood had closed. It seemed that dollar stores were closing (or merging) all over the place. I visited a DG in the burbs. It was still open. I asked a cashier if the store was going to close. She said it wasn’t. We shall see this weekend.
This is real life economic indicators. Of course stats and predictions (supply chain interruptions, trade wars, tariffs, inflation, layoffs) are one thing, but for yours truly, We have to see it IRL to corroborate those stats and predictions.
Universe told me back in the day that stuff that’s happening now would happen. In particular that we, (the USA) would have our USSR moment. It was difficult to imagine, given the gray, gloomy (propaganda) images that came from Russia in the late 1980s. Instead of counting our blessings, American companies, (I remember Burger King vividly) made jokes about the blandness of Soviet life, to sell us Whoppers without onions and/or pickles. This was freedom of choice.
Meanwhile, as I’m on the train today and at least part of tomorrow, here’s a tour of my West Philly hood. See ya in the Big Pretzel.
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