In March, advocacy group the Institute for Local Self-Reliance published a study that found that dollar stores are pulling sales away from local grocery stores in predominantly rural, low-income Black and Latino neighborhoods, leading some areas to become food deserts. Now communities across the country are fighting back. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah reports.
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Maybe if everyone wasn’t broke it wouldn’t be a problem
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*Most Dollar stores are NOT CHEAPER.* _In fact divide the $1.00/$1.25 cost per oz and you’ll find_ *you might pay 50% more for FOOD in smaller bags and cans.* …. Just saying.
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Keep dollar tree cause everything a dollar compare to family dollar
Ain’t no such thing as a dollar store 😂
How much does items cost at dollar stores ?
Once again, We blacks are tricked into thinking something is hurting the community, which it’s not. Believe it or not, low income people need dollars store’s because the mom and pop store’s charge way too much anyway.
They are setting up a food supply chain to keep us sick overweight and in need of constant medical care
Why’s the DG rep dancing around the question? It’s a yes or no question
Hey baby, that’s the free market! As soon as big corporations like Walmart & Target start hurting, suddenly competition is a problem. Stop hiding behind small owned black businesses. The way this is framed is hilariously disingenuous. If people opt to buy groceries at Dollar Stores, that says so much about the state of the economy than anything else.
I’m blessed to have an HEB in every corner. I couldn’t even imagine gettting food at Walmart
Move to Texas and this won’t be a problem, we literally have the best grocery store in every corner, HEB
The idea of eating food from the $1 store is sickening.
This is great news, thanks 4 Dollar 💵 stores, they make you feel like family.
Well your community is robbing them blind so….. Soon the dollar stores will also be gone And your community will be to blame again.
NBC is trash, cant report anything honestly
They accept EBT and sell candy .. Over priced like 7-11. 2-3 times more expensive
during the pandemic in brooklyn there was a super market walking distance from my place but i never went. my roomate told me it was overpriced. he shopped at one a few subway stops.there were grocery stores as well. but i prefered the dollar tree across the street it was huge clean and the staff was great.i did alot od uber eats ordering. i was a single person and was doing school online. but for a family it would be a different situation. i always saw the dollar tree as convenient and great supplement to supermarket shopping. it met my needs great candles and decorations i even got books there. it reminded me of old school woolworths of my childhood.
You should support your local store tbh but what ever floats your boat
Well what are people supposed to do? Cost of basic needs are skyhigh and wages haven’t kept up for decades. People that make over $100,000 have been shopping at Walmart for groceries since before the pandemic. I live in Portland and we only have Dollar Tree, but they have added frozen food up to $5.
Just go to Aldi if you can 🤷🏽♀️
Start stealing from dollar stores iam in
How about- *new study finds most people’s budget is dollar store worthy*
Maybe old man good stores don’t need to rip people off u
Dollar Stores are often way more expensive than regular grocery stores! Even Walmart is cheaper!
The world is leaving the dollar behind the next few years you will see inflation and poverty like never before. The end of an empire. Good news is people will come back down to reality.
I feel like that the power of mass media is horrible, people forget that the voice of the people is stronger. And it hurts me to see y’all hate on other companies. If they can’t sell it, do a nice thing and give it to the homeless.
Ppl can’t afford regular grocery stores prices any longer.
I love dollar tree. They’re close to home, in and out. Food deserts are from stealing.
Wouldn’t have food deserts if your community didn’t STEAL so much from the grocery stores! That’s a stone cold fact. The only stores willing to deal with that mess is quicky marts and dollar stores. You made your bed…
It’s called capitalism. What’s the alternative?
Not shopping there any mo
Dollar stores arent even a good deal. I dont believe these are causing food deserts its the people causing food deserts.
Every save a lot I’ve ever shopped at has expired products. Always. Every time I try to give them a chance.
Walmart Supercenters are leaving the game also
These retailers do not owe BP anything. Why aren’t black men building for their own community? Usually when men see a need in the community they take action to meet it. It’s always BW spearheading protest about needs in the BC but never look to these black males and require them to take action. BM are sitting by own their lazy behinds just watching and participating in the demise of the community.
Never seen a dollar general with a produce section. I only go to Family dollar/Dollar Tree/ Dollar general for quick stuff loke bandaids or snacks. Otherwise im at Aldi or Walmart sometimes. Schnucks is the local grocer in my city but they cost too much imo.
I cannot believe they are blaming dollar stores, who provide household essentials not groceries, for the collapse of grocery stores 😑
that new shane dawson video made me side eye all grocery store products
I don’t see the issue. I think Dollars aren’t meant to replace grocery stores. They’re nothing more than slightly larger convient stores. Heck If I go to my gas station down the street, I can find several grocery items. The dollar stores are good for low and mid income, and rural communities where you aren’t likely to find major grocery stores. I support them.
How dare those racist dollar stores. The nerve of them
These stores are making our health bad…I went back to my home town Iand I could not even find water in the cooler…but it was stocked full with sugary juice, sodas and redbulls….just sad
Family dollar/general food equals DIABETES.
This whole report makes me mad. Dollar stores are not the villains. When these stores come into many rural communities, they are not competing with any grocery stores. There are usually no options at all for the residents who live there, and when dollar general or family dollar comes in, they finally have a place where they can buy food without having to drive 20-30 miles or more. And they are saying Dollar General is creating food desserts when actually they are doing the opposite in many ways. Some communities just aren’t large enough to support a real grocery store.
They are also ignoring the fact that people in the cities often shop at these places because it is what they can afford. The mom-and-pop grocers need to accept that times are tough, and going on the news and complaining like this isn’t going to change that fact. I’m convinced that if people in these low-income communities had the money to go and buy the freshest food, they would.
This whole report just doesn’t sit right with me.
It’s not the dollar store fault. They won’t go where there’s no profit. All they have to do is not buy from em. Unless the majority actually wants the store, it’ll have to shut down and they won’t build another one
Yeah they got it figured out.
We need to fix and renovate our crumbling energy and transportation infrastructure nationwide and that will make poverty lessen for a generation. Then we can fix and renovate something else. Or we can eat the rich.
Maybe is not the dollar stores issues but the supermarkets feeling the wrath of consumers for overpriced foods you get from a supermarket. Right now food is ridiculous overpriced
Greta NBC out to protect the wealthy SUPERMARKETS at no point doing their research as to why and or who is shopping in those stores keeping them alive.aka the poor American that can’t afford the overpriced “organic” products In A supermarket. Everything is organic to chage us extra for the same foods we used to get before that was introduced
PEOPLE. CANNOT. AFFORD. TOO. SURVIVE!!!!
I’m white and I’m surviving on dollar store food.
I don’t feel safe in those dollar stores. Also, the prices are usually higher than what I find at the grocery stores.
I live in a majority Black part of a mid sized town in Georgia. In my area, within about a 3 mile area. We have about 3 dollar stores and 2 grocery stores. We had 1 grocery store shut down but another took its place. And we had a dollar store shut down and another took it’s place. I really can’t see a dollar store putting a grocery store out of business. I’ve never seen people spend more than probably less than a hundred in a dollar store. But people spend a few hundred in a grocery store.
I’m lost I thought it was a blk owner grocery store. How she was going so hard. ( imma sit this one out)🤔
Are they mad their ebt doesn’t go far enough at the dollar general?
Ha, exactly. Midwestern Marx Institute talked about this.
Yeah, you see those a lot in rural and neighbourHOOD(ghetto) areas, and that’s not strictly a US problem, but a Canadian one as well.
Well, I’m poor. Those stores end up my best choice.
Start a fresh produce store then lol that’s the problem.
They donot help communities. THEY are feeding communities with no service .low energy food…
Great attempt at a race bait.
Keep them down, and tell em it’s good for them.
Omfg. So black people are targets yet again. Poor black people forever and ever, to infinity, poor me because I’m black. All these dollar stores are racist
I never thought id hear a human complaining because the prices are too cheap. But have you met African Americans??? Lol this is ridiculous. Someone give this lady money so she can shut the f up
Omg really? So a business comes in with cheaper goods and you say they are racist without saying it. They are providing goods at a lower price most of the time they might not be a full grocery store so people have a choice. Stop the BS
someone needs to tell the grocery stores to stop squeezing our pockets. and maybe they won’t lose customers and business 🤔
Nonsense. The very existence of Family Dollar and Dollar stores in certain areas is what PREVENTS food deserts. A healthy portion of small towns in the south I’ve passed through have a single local chain grocer and it’s often not close to residential areas and there’s certainly no public transportation. BUT a dollar store of some sort is walkable
Yeah it may be Great they know their customers name & all,but what good does that serve them when they can’t afford to Buy there🤷🏻♂️ the rich won’t share the wealth,what can we do!?!? Suffer i Guess!!
Sheeeiitttt
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Please stop calling dollar general a dollar store. Dollar store means things should cost a dollar, so dollar tree would be more accurate, even though they just raised their prices to $1.25, they are still overall cheaper than many things at dollar general, which translates to generally not a dollar.
Learn to farm and you wouldn’t have a desert
You people perform so much mental gymnastics to get around telling the truth. Food deserts exist because of high theft. And the fact its always a black neighborhood. Just admit it. It happens even where i live.
Everything will ALWAYS lead back to Blackrock and Vanguard. Cheers. So it doesn’t matter “where” you shop…
Dollar stores are price gouging my community, 6.75 for a bag of French fries that sell for 2.25 at a regular grocery store…why so much for a discount store?? GREED
Just go plant base get your seeds
This should not be allowed . Some are so remote that the people may no other stores may be available.
I live in a rural community and for me, I use Dollar General to pick up small items I may have ran out of or forgot. But we forget me utilizing DG is a luxury. Some have no choice to grocery shop from these places. What this piece is saying is they have over saturated areas with dollar stores that do not adeqetly meet our grocery needs and push out or deter grocery stores from coming in to these rural areas and food deserts.
There has to be a happy medium to serve all people what they need.
Dollars General pays employees $11.00 a hour lol😅😂
The dollar store in the hood are higher than Walmart sometimes
People shop there because that’s what they can afford so they won’t starve what will those persons eat now
Since inflation hit , My local grocery store prices went up Triple and Quadruple,
So I Shop Aldi food store and Dollar Tree.
Dollar Tree macaroni is much tastier than Aldi macaroni,
Dollar Tree sells bread and bagels, ,
Dollar Tree tuna fish I don’t buy,
Aldi tuna fish is good,
The secret is super squeeze the water out.
I thought more competition was good for the free market
I gotta admit. I don’t even remember the name of the grocery store I went to when I was four years old, let alone the store still standing and still in business. That’s quite remarkable
I cannot believe some cities have LIMITED the expansion of companies, LIMITING capitalism
I absolutely love dollar stores, they provide some needed stuff at low prices and dont inflate like the groceries where things are up every week…its not comparable to a grocery store but it definitely helps everyone in the community, specially those with low income! Food there is also not bad, its same as others in the grocery store tested/approved and not expired! So why judge? Suddenly the store that works for poor people is a problem?
Dollar stores are NOT the reason for stores closing 😂
That first Dollar Store DEFINITELY knew they were gonna be on TV, look how clean it was 😆
They acting ungrateful to me how is they blaming them when those businesses decided to leave your community we don’t even have them type of dollars stores in Chicago we wish we did its food deserts barely have one
Wait, so now dollar store is racis6😅
Make food cheaper in supermarkets. Not everybody can buy eggs at $7 dollars a cartoon, Dollar Store have better prices, I say fu5k it go 4 it.
That is so not a grocery store. Why can’t people of all incomes have something decent?
Look we also need to be fighting loud and clear against #Republican proposals to cut #SNAP #foodstamps which support so many poor people. Many of those poor people are retirees who worked decades for very little and need their food stamps in retirement that starts in their 50s.
The food stamp program was created by Henry A Wallace, who was at the time Secretary of Agriculture, was later VP.
He realized that poor people were starving in a rich country and his #Christian faith made him act, also he was a farmer and outraged at the injustice of food poverty.
#PresidentBiden has recently held a forum on the topic of #FoodSecurity and one attendee was Chef Jose Andres, founder of @WorldCentralKitchen.
Yep…… we have warned about this for decades now but are always told we are just being sexist, racist and trying to keep investment out of minority neighborhoods.
You do NOT want “investors” in your neighborhod, town/city or state…. all they do is leach wealth out of the community.
Same with corporations….. corporatism is a top down system and top down systems do NOT work…. bottom up systems like capitalism are the only systems that work because it puts the power in the hands of the people instead of those at the top.
I’ve been to local grocery stores in rural oklahoma and they are ghetto..
“Some” communities, just say it
USA! USA! USA! Everything is fine here
This is called a free market. $ stores are there because the people there shop there and like them. Grocery stores should leave if they can’t figure out how to attract people to shop with them. If you can’t compete. Get out of the market. If people there like cheap food, let them. If the government doesn’t like that, educate them. $ stores are just there to fulfill those people’s needs.
People don’t buy groceries but still blame others for it? If there’s demand there will be supply – that’s a basic economic principle. Why do folks act like they always don’t have a choice and somehow the government has to step in and interfere with the daily lives and choices everyone including they themselves make on a daily basis.
Grocers are way more expensive than Discount Stores. If they eventually move in, we know they’d have to be subsidized by the city government which is not only costly to tax payers who are going to indirectly foot the bill but would charter to only one demographic which is unfair.
The issue is can they make it fair enough for everyone? Can they create incentives for more grocers to move there naturally instead of pushing other businesses out? Stop trying to engineer the natural cycle of businesses when it comes to the basic rules of demand and supply. If a need isn’t met, create a grocer or make it easy for others to come in. If you don’t have a house, build one – don’t push others out of their own homes!
0:21 probably a nice neighborhood until they started building projects and dollar stores
Dollar Tree is the only store they mentioned that’s supposed to be an actual $1 store.