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Dollar Store No More
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by jr | March 18, 2009 at 03:32 pm
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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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at 15:34 on March 18th, 2009
I love how they tried to add the sign in to make it look like the 25 cents had been there all along.
at 16:00 on March 18th, 2009
When I was a kid we still called Penneys and other shops "five and dimes". Everything in the shop used to be 5 cents and 10 cents, back when pay was 25 cents an hour and a beer in a bar was a nickel (five cents), my grandmother's time, the 1920s and '30s.
at 17:30 on March 18th, 2009
Wow, even lead-painted, toxic crap from China is now more expensive. I don't trust anything you can but in a "dollar store"