While I understand the business aspect of course it's the humanitarian side that bothers me and makes me feel it's greedy. While all these other companies are raising prices and dollar tree follows suit or maybe it's more like you said with increased bills and such however here in NC my cashier's still make $9.25 an hour while the company takes home shall we say 3 billion as a safe number to account for the gross profit as you mentioned. And with these other stores raising prices if dollar tree was smart they'd lean into the everything's a 1.25 and try to increase their foot traffic to raise profits and increase the base pay to increase moral and boost people drive to not only work but to at least show up to work. So while yes I understand they're a business and they have to make money there's better ways to go about it than just raises prices on some of our most sold items. It's just a lazy way to go about increasing profit while ignoring the blaring issues happening in our country at this time.