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How Dollar Stores Quietly Consumed America

Wendover Productions · 4.2M views · 2023-09-07 · 19:48

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Overview

A Wendover Productions video on how dollar store chains expanded across America and why they displace grocery stores in small towns. It covers their business model and supplier leverage.

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Offered as a good explanation of the business of dollar stores and how they affect local grocers.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2023–2025

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bonyt · 2024-03 · Recommendation

A couple of good videos about the business of dollar stores with similar takes: [LINK] (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) [VIDEO] (Wendover Productions)

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hnfong · 2023-09 · Recommendation

> There is nothing inevitable about the dollar store putting the grocer out of business. I recently came across this, and I think it does a good job explaining the problem: [VIDEO]

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natebc · 2025-04 · Reference

There's a minute or two in this video(1) about DG from Wendover Productions last year that discusses this. Apparently they're so powerful they can get better deals from suppliers than Walmart and even get custom SKUs ($1 sizes of Tide Detergent, for example) from them to be the product on shelves in DG. Kinda crazy. 1) [VIDEO]

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