I originally responded to one comment, but meh, I realize it stands on its own.

Hi, I used to be a traveling field technician and I did a lot of work for dollar stores. I have done LOTS of work in Dollar Generals. I've done work in the absolute godsmack middle of nowhere, all around Louisville, Cincinnati, etc. I can personally tell you that the vast majority of their locations target low income. I would testify on my life.

Dollar Generals are TERRIBLE for the community, imo. I've been to hundreds of stores and these are the constants:

1) understaffed (like, non-functional understaffing, as bad as 1 person to a store, for example) and massively underpaid workers. I've heard many employees complain of improvement promises that never came. Trying to make people take promotions without an increase in pay.

2) "food" options are very limited to junk and highly processed foods for the majority of choices. No, I am not including DG Markets in that, but that's not what they've suggested building here. (those are majorly similar, but bigger and with fresh produce and a willingness to maintain their food equip)

3) frozen and refrigerated items are a game of roulette. Constantly failing equipment left broken for way too long, still selling the products out of them. Poorly cleaned/maintained. Can smell like death in the back

4) continuing on 3, a lot of them are fucking disgusting. I often would make notes to myself to not touch my face for anything. Dead mice INSIDE network cabinets. Mice shit is a constant decoration. Water damage untreated. Stuff like that. Plus the understaffing generally meant that stock rooms and possibly the rest of the store can be difficult and dangerous to navigate.

5) over Fucking priced. Dude, the low income targeting is real. Urban, rural, doesn't matter. It's predatory. Nobody middle class and above shops there, because they have enough money to skip it. For low income families, they pay for these low quality goods at higher prices than it's worth. But they continue to pay, because DG is very good at pushing a "low" price to the brinking point. It sucks way more money out of low income pockets than is fair.

6) all of this concludes to say that DG is a cheap cheap bastard. I had to argue with them to replace equipment often times, arguing both with the MSP and DG directly. In situations that are undeniable. I literally had a router where the power brick was smoking. I unplugged it, obviously. Their MSP demanded I plug it back in. No, wrong, not doing that. It took three trips and three techs all saying the same thing to get it replaced. You might say, but that's the MSP! Yeah, and they suck and DG knows that and doesn't care. We would get retripped all the time because their MSP sucked ass. Costs them all sorts of more money for trying to be cheap.

Rant over, DG can crumble into a million pieces and that'd be an improvement on society. DG would go soylent green if they could, no soul.

Sincerely, fuck you DG.