Dollar Store No More

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Dollar Store No More

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When Dollar Giant opened last year on Pender St. at Main in Vancouver's Chinatown, their signs boasted that everything in the store was $1.  

No more.  

They've added a ".25" to all the dollar signs in the windows.  Everything in the store is now $1.25, other than food items which will continue to be $1.

I asked a security guard when the prices had gone up.  "About a month ago," he said.  Another clerk told me that the prices have not gone up at all Dollar Giants.  "Not at the one on Kingsway & Clark or the one on Commercial Dr."  She speculated that the price increase at the Chinatown location was due to the number of shoplifters. 

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