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Let me guess there one of those mystically mystical shops called the wandering shops and it suddenly appears not too surprising I just wish I could do that LOL'
Average time per week is 130hrs.for all your staff.which means if you the manager has 48 hrs for yourself then you only have 82 hrs to spread around for your other employees.that means you work a lot.
@@silencemeviolateme6076 Goodlettsville, TN, 20 min from Nashville , is where the headquarters is. It's a weird mix of middle class, upper middle, and homeless junkies.
@@AEMoreira81 … I drove by 5 just to get from the Walmart to the McDonald’s right down the street lol. And while also driving by 3 waffle houses , 2 subways, and a Walgreens in between. Man there’s a lot of Dollar General stores
Sorry Night Angel but it's a buggy. Not a cart. And it's Middle Tennessee not Central Tennessee. I know that has nothing to do with your comment. Just a PSA.
I was laughing because I live on an Island on the Texas coast (Galveston is the name of our town/Island) and there are several Family Dollar and Dollar General Locations on our little Island lol.
Seriously, Dollar General needs to stock the shelves of the stores they have open before they open anymore. I’m tired of aisles being blocked with carts full of boxes
Bottom line, you still come in and shop. That's all they care about. They arent looking for friends or neighbors. They don't care about being a town treasure. They want cash. Michaela will be this way in 10 years. You want the wreath. You'll wait.
Because DG, like all other businesses just now can't find people to hire that want to work. They're all sitting on their rear ends waiting for the government check. Don't blame DG.
@@gardenbuzzy I was a 3rd key. They kept scheduling me with a crazy cashier that yelled at customers and called the cops. They expected me to cashier and stock shelves recover and clean. Two people from 5-10. I want staying for that. Mostly trash customers to begin with waiting in line 20 minutes. I wasn't putting up with anyone's trashiness anymore. Had the feeling the manager was stealing and didn't trust me. I hope she was. I hope they are robbing dg blind. I worked there 2002-2004 and it was a dream by comparison.
I'm not even southern and I enjoy this lol they need to do one where they visit family in the north east in the middle of winter. There is so much there they could easily do 2 videos on that.
By the way I visited one of those outside the country which is and was for gifts, as side gifts and they didn't have much of equal equation, "in the ocean" they had porcelain piggy's coin and money, I got those, it's okay if it broke though as one immediately did, it was only a dollar of equal equation.. And they had some cups and some plastic utensils, paper.
I used to work a job where I had to go to the most rural parts of my state and whenever I went to a small town, even if there was nothing around, there was always a dollar general.
@@dogestranding5047 there's a place in South Carolina called pumpkin town that got its first new business in 80 years a couple years ago and it was a Dollar general.
There’s a tiny town near here where nearly everything has closed but the have a Dollar General and a Family Dollar. Even the IGA closed, you have to drive 15 miles to the nearest town to get groceries.
My Wife is a District Manager For Dollar Tree...Paid serious Flow!..Car/Phone/Stocks.Etc....They Rule the Dollar Store Industry...Ask Family Dollar..lol.
Brand new DG down the road from me, built right beside where the old one was. I thought surely A new one would always have stocked shelves.....I was wrong.....horribly wrong!😳😖😩
That explains why the DG around the corner never has any dairy products, but the one around the other corner has all kinds of dairy products, clearly corporate doesn't realize our DG exists!
Same with mine. The 1 to the left, nothing and nobody. The 1 to the right, Always fully stocked with products And friendly staff. I wonder which 1 us the clone. 🤔
I'm serious when I say our local Dollar General closed down... To build a larger Dollar General on the other side of the street. I don't mean metaphorically; I mean you can walk in a straight line from the abandoned building to the currently operating store.
When we visited Kentucky this summer, my wife and I stated playing "Slug General" with the kids. It's like "Slug Bug" but with Dollar General. We have them in South Dakota, but not on every corner of every town and cornfield.
My tiny town has seven and if you drive about ten minutes outside of town in any direction you can find another one. I'm in Kentucky so image one of y'all's arm was bruised by the state line.
As a DG assistant manger, the fully staffed store is what I wish all the stores in my area could say. We can barely keep up with keeping our backroom even half way empty. We have so much overstock and seasonal items for spring and summer that it takes up 2/3 of our stock room. It's insane! We make the joke that you know your town is finally big enough when you get a DG, lol.
As a former DG employee, I can confirm we had to repel the attacks from the tumor-like second store in our stockroom. If it wasn't for our abundant supply of various paper towels the blood from the War Of The Stores might have overwhelmed us.
"They're turning into Russian nesting dolls." "We aren't building new stores. The're building themselves." You guys are comedy gold. That's multiplying.
Also in Ohio, can confirm. You can't throw a rock without hitting one dg or another. "Nah we gotta go to the one down by the high school its so much better."
I busted out and snorted on the "Redbox"! Hillarious!! I worry about the viability of a move to "TV"...maybe a streamed series on Netflix or the like...
That is their store brand fyi. And they want restock it for days at a time. No C.V. chips for 8 days at my DG. No lunch meat (NONE) for 4 days. But someone is ALWAYS on smoke break. I started keeping track. I go every day or 2 (on foot and they are 3 blocks away) and in the last 11 WEEKS someone has been on smoke break EVERY time!!! If I lived closer to walk-mart I would go there.
There is a Dollar General sadly missing for Langston, Alabama. Please DG put a store in this remote vacation destination and for residents who must travel 20 miles for a gallon of milk.
@@SuperSirianRigel don't need to print it every day takes time to open stores because they actually have to build a lot of them due to in the middle of no where.
@@SuperSirianRigel The map was digital, not hanging on a wall - and it was always a little bit out of date each time I saw it. The store list was always more up to date than the map.
And the DG stores are always busy! There might be 300 people in town and three DG stores and each store has over a hundred customers a day! For real crazy.
I worked for Dollar General for 3 years. This skit is accurate. (There are 4 DGs within 5 miles of me.) Friendly reminder during holidays and every day: the everyday employees are overworked, underpaid, stores are understaffed, they get no benefits, and are just trying to keep a roof over their heads. Be nice. Please don't accuse the cashier of bait-and-switch because they have no control over sales, ads, and pricing. Thank you.
I was in my local Dollar G recently, and one employee was checking another's lunchbox to make sure they weren't shoplifting. They do it every time they come and go. I don't see how they get anyone to work there.
I don't blame the folks working there I blame their management. It's absolutely ridiculous to have two people working one store. The stock is never on the shelves, the aisles are so crowded you can barely walk through them. I'm honestly surprised no one has brought an ADA lawsuit against them. Because they serve a population where it may be the only store for miles they have a responsibility to be able to serve all their customers, not just the ones who are able to leapfrog the boxes in the aisles.
If I had to guess, corporate is focused solely on expansion, instead of the stores themselves, which is replicating Kmart in the 70's. Sounds good on paper, but if you're not setup to handle a large amount of stores, it's going to collapse on you one day, just like it did Kmart in the mid-90's when they narrowly escaped bankruptcy.
It’s disgusting the way they treat their people. I was in a DG one day and there was only one girl working. She had a transport truck delivering in back, three vendors delivering up front, a store full of customers and the main office had her on a conference call at the same time, which she said she could not get out of. They restrict the amount of employee hours they can use every week! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone into one of these stores and seen a manager crying, because supervisors treat them worse than dogs. I used to be a vendor, but I have not been in one of these hell holes since I retired!
I worked at one years ago, it was basically shoving 10 gallons of crap into a 5 gallon bucket, only place I've ever gotten yelled at for trying to put something back where it belonged. Then I swear they hire truck drivers even Swift won't touch, let's put a case of light bulbs on the bottom and throw a case of detergent on them.
I’ve been to some random out of the way places on road trips and Dollar General is the only thing that is EVERYWHERE. No gas station, yes dollar general. It’s bizarre.
Yes, and how you must use self checkout for your entire cartfull of groceries and every 5th item triggers the blinking red light and "Please wait for assistance" error but there is NO ONE around to offer assistance....oh, sorry.
Dollar Tree is much better. Everything in DG is getting higher and higher priced. Many of the things they sell are actually cheaper at Walmart and Target. 😟
My husband grew up in a very tiny rural town in middle GA. Their claim to fame is nine roads and a blinky light (that they only got around 30 years ago). About 300 people on a good day when nobody died. 2 churches and an old gas station that is now a chicken place. That’s it EXCEPT for what they call the Mall - yep, it’s a Dollar General. Now that they have it, they don’t have to drive the 30-50 miles to the nearest Wally World. Totally worth any extra $ in time and gas. ;)
Isn't Dollar Tree an actual dollar store? (everything cost a dollar), or has that changed? Dollar General is a mini-mini Walmart, so there is no everything is a dollar there
I’m a typewriter collector and I drove through SC today to go get one. I saw a grand total of 12 Dollar Generals. I thought of your skits the entire time
We are a small town of 8000 people and we have two now, only two miles apart. The next town over has only 5000 people and they also have two--on the same street, one mile apart.
This is so true. We are a small town and already had 3 Dollar Generals and ANOTHER one popped up a quarter mile down from an existing one. You can see the store from the other store!
I remember going on family vacations and traveling through Georgia on our way to the Florida panhandle and my brother and I made up a game. Every time one of us saw a Dollar General, we had to give the other person a dollar. Needless to say, we ended up changing a dollar to a quarter which was eventually changed to a penny. That game ended up being expensive.
I work at the Dollar General corporate office, and this is literally my everyday life. I can't decide if I love this more for its many accuracies or hate it more for its equal number of inaccuracies. XD XD XD
@@sokyoutdoors588 most of the crap on here from disgruntled ex-employees are only there because people don't want to WORK for their check. Is this the best job I ever had? No. Is it the worst? Not by a long shot. There's hours to be had, if you wanna work.
@@Videostoredontgo digital coupons work just fine if you clip them before you try to use them, and actually read the exceptions. Neither the manufacturer, nor Dollar General are going to help you commit retail fraud. Learn how coupons work and stop arguing policy with the cashier. It's posted at the checkout, and you don't have a clue how it works. Your assignment is to read policy for COMPREHENSION. I don't have to fix your screw ups with coupons, just because you don't understand how they work. I will NOT, however, return and re-ring your items because you forgot your frigging coupon. Your lack of preparedness, on your part, does not constitute an emergency, on mine. Get yourself together and stop expecting personal shoppers when you walk through the door. You'll get a lot more assistance and genuine help if you stop acting so entitled, actually be accountable for your own life.
No lie, here in Michigan we went on a nice trip all around the state a couple years ago, and we kept track of how many Dollar Generals we passed. We were in the high 30's and that was even avoiding major arteries for the 'scenic route.'
This is still my favorite video on IST! Every time I start the videos to watch again, this video is always the first one!! My new catch phrase? "Sweet Clover Valley"!
I recently was on a train ride through the rural south and by god, there may not have been houses or churches for 90% of the route but there were at least 2 dollar generals every 5 minutes
Nuts! 🛒. Wawa & Walgreens did that in central FL to the point a few closed 🏚. Bad mgmt & over speculation. 7-11s over saturated too but they level out. Orlando FL at 1 point had 4, four ☕ Starbucks within 1.5mi . 1 in a Target, 2 cafes, 1 in a B&N 📚. They had 3 cafes but that only lasted about 2yr.
My wife and myself live in Michigan. We just watched this video about 3 months ago. Three weeks ago, we went to Virginia to visit my sister. My God there really are DG's just about everywhere!
DG gets a lot of hate - though, I guess some of it is deserved. I used to work at a DG and we were lucky to have an OCD great manager so our ratings we're the best in our district. I'd go to another DG just 15 miles away and it was like they were in a contest to see how many boxes they could stack on top of each other in the isles.
Well, they're actually not everywhere. I live in a stuck-up town full of boutiques and designer stores that sell useless junk for extraordinary prices. It's a 20-minute drive to my closest DG where the useless junk is much more reasonably priced.
One was built right beside the main entrance to a golfing/development right down the road. YIPEEEE! They about birthed a bovine! The development, that is!
Dollar General is the kudzu of retail. Seriously, there are 5 DGs, each 4 to 6 miles from my house: one north, one NE, one west, one SE and one south. No joke.
Soon enough, we’ll all be LIVING in dollar generals, our kids will be born in dollar general. We’ll have family gatherings and graduations..in dollar general. We live and die by the dollar general..all hail dollar general!
Find Walmart on a map, follow each main road away from it and you'll find a DG. It's a genius plan. You get in your car and start to Walmart for a few items. Toilet paper, laundry detergent and a loaf of bread for example. You dread the trip because you know that while you're going after three things, you'll some how end up with at least a dozen things. Then you see that Dollar General sitting there across the road from the trailer park or subdivision. It's a lot closer to your house, you won't have to walk a mile to get in the store, after which you have to walk another mile to round up your items. So your mind says, screw it. Stop here instead! You're in, your out and at worst you bought a candy bar and a bottle of something to drink extra. You may have paid a dollar or two more but you saved a lot by not buying all that extra stuff you didn't want in the first place. Over time you cut your trips to the big box store down to maybe once a week and find yourself at the Dollar General more. Someone in the Dollar General corporation got a big promotion out of this.
You know, if you stand in an empty field in Mississippi and say "Dollar General" three times, one magically appears.
You have to click your heels........three times....
Especially in every little, po'dunk southern town
Let me guess there one of those mystically mystical shops called the wandering shops and it suddenly appears not too surprising I just wish I could do that LOL'
Okay, that makes sense.... I have always wondered....
What about Dollar Trees? I love them the most.
The only part of this that I did not believe was the fact that she said the Dollar General was "fully staffed"
Average time per week is 130hrs.for all your staff.which means if you the manager has 48 hrs for yourself then you only have 82 hrs to spread around for your other employees.that means you work a lot.
I like waffle houses.
@@susandaniels9733 my point is that, every dollar general I go to is grossly understaffed
@@DrTXBooks depends on who is defining "fully staffed".
@@theCTCamp that is an excellent point
As a DG store manager, this is 100% what happens at board meetings in Goodlettsville. I guarantee you.
You must be in a nice area. I worked at one in 2003 and then again last year. Pure hell. I never knew our town had become so trashy.
I always call it "the hive" like in Resident Evil.
@@silencemeviolateme6076 Goodlettsville, TN, 20 min from Nashville , is where the headquarters is. It's a weird mix of middle class, upper middle, and homeless junkies.
@@TheSlong123 I’m seeing Vince Gill in Nashville tomm night 12-13-21 at the Ryman. ✌🏽
I was going to ask is it close to bentonville? Lol 😂
We use dollar generals to give directions around here. "Get off the interstate at exit 130, turn right, turn left at the third dollar general..."
You might pass 3 to get to a Walmart!
@@AEMoreira81 … I drove by 5 just to get from the Walmart to the McDonald’s right down the street lol. And while also driving by 3 waffle houses , 2 subways, and a Walgreens in between. Man there’s a lot of Dollar General stores
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"Halloween, Christmas, or Easter?"
" Yes."
Man, this is true. Every holiday candy in a grocery cart in front of the door.
Sorry Night Angel but it's a buggy. Not a cart. And it's Middle Tennessee not Central Tennessee. I know that has nothing to do with your comment. Just a PSA.
@@connieodom9124 It's a cart, my family has been in the south since before it was the south. A buggy is something Amish people use.
Right, I live in Alabama, born and raised, and we call it a cart
@@adamhovey407 right and you push babies in buggies too... might as well call a cart a trolley if you're not from the south
@@connieodom9124 We live in Louisiana and it's a buggy.
“Are those stores on islands!?”
“It think they’re in the ocean.”
Me:*Chokes on sweet tea*
I was laughing because I live on an Island on the Texas coast (Galveston is the name of our town/Island) and there are several Family Dollar and Dollar General Locations on our little Island lol.
IKR, me too!!🤣😂
Xx GamingFlower xX “chokes on Sweet Tea” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The most southern way to choke
@@Evelyn-vh1ex I don't think Galveston counts as an "island;" y'all have THE Medical School for crying out loud 😂
I work at a DG distribution center. They arent lying😆
Nah Fr tho.. full case order selector in Longview, TX.. I don’t think I’ve had two different books that went to the same store 😂😂😂
I work at the warehouse in Scottsville, Kentucky
Do you really send supplies to canada?
@@thatman8710 I work with people that trained that DC
There's 7 within 15 minutes of my house 😂😂😂
Seriously, Dollar General needs to stock the shelves of the stores they have open before they open anymore. I’m tired of aisles being blocked with carts full of boxes
This must be corporate policy, because all of them are this way.
Bottom line, you still come in and shop. That's all they care about. They arent looking for friends or neighbors. They don't care about being a town treasure. They want cash. Michaela will be this way in 10 years. You want the wreath. You'll wait.
Because DG, like all other businesses just now can't find people to hire that want to work. They're all sitting on their rear ends waiting for the government check. Don't blame DG.
@@gardenbuzzy how do you know? You work for dg? How many low wage jobs do you work?
@@gardenbuzzy I was a 3rd key. They kept scheduling me with a crazy cashier that yelled at customers and called the cops. They expected me to cashier and stock shelves recover and clean. Two people from 5-10. I want staying for that. Mostly trash customers to begin with waiting in line 20 minutes. I wasn't putting up with anyone's trashiness anymore. Had the feeling the manager was stealing and didn't trust me. I hope she was. I hope they are robbing dg blind. I worked there 2002-2004 and it was a dream by comparison.
Let's help the funniest southern channel get their pilot ya'll!
I'm not even southern and I enjoy this lol they need to do one where they visit family in the north east in the middle of winter. There is so much there they could easily do 2 videos on that.
Pls yes! It’s snowing in Michigan and it’s not even thanksgiving please do the Midwest
I need to know if it's G rated first!
@Carol Howard my town has less than 15,000 and we also have three! I never thought about it until now. Holy crap!
By the way I visited one of those outside the country which is and was for gifts, as side gifts and they didn't have much of equal equation, "in the ocean" they had porcelain piggy's coin and money, I got those, it's okay if it broke though as one immediately did, it was only a dollar of equal equation.. And they had some cups and some plastic utensils, paper.
There are literally dollar general stores where there ain't even gas stations because there is no civilization, but dagum, there is a dollar general!!
I saw a DG with gas pumps
I used to work a job where I had to go to the most rural parts of my state and whenever I went to a small town, even if there was nothing around, there was always a dollar general.
They specialize in stores in small communities.
@@dogestranding5047 there's a place in South Carolina called pumpkin town that got its first new business in 80 years a couple years ago and it was a Dollar general.
There’s a tiny town near here where nearly everything has closed but the have a Dollar General and a Family Dollar. Even the IGA closed, you have to drive 15 miles to the nearest town to get groceries.
'By the way we ran out of red toner, and did you know we don't sell ink cartridges at any of these store?" Haha. True dat!
Dollar General - the only dollar store that hardly sells anything for a dollar.
sandytinky That’s why we go to Dollar Tree!
@@samiam619 Dollar Tree is the best dollar store in the country! 💖
Before long, Dollar tree will be the same way. They’re already stocking items priced at $5 or more.
@@8bitmags9 where??? what are you talking about?
My Wife is a District Manager For Dollar Tree...Paid serious Flow!..Car/Phone/Stocks.Etc....They Rule the Dollar Store Industry...Ask Family Dollar..lol.
I bet all these Dollar Generals have no one @ the cash register & the aisles are full of boxes.
I pretty sure thats what defines it as a dollar general 🤷
And they are full of customers but the shelves are empty most of the time ,I guess we are supposed to work the cart to find what we are looking for
Brand new DG down the road from me, built right beside where the old one was. I thought surely A new one would always have stocked shelves.....I was wrong.....horribly wrong!😳😖😩
IKR! My dollar general looks like it’s managed/maintained/stocked by hoarding meth addicts.
Michael Merck I have NEVER seen an empty shelf. Too much stuff if anything.
That explains why the DG around the corner never has any dairy products, but the one around the other corner has all kinds of dairy products, clearly corporate doesn't realize our DG exists!
*Twirls moustache* *Rubs hands*
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MyDG has three dairy cases!
Same with mine. The 1 to the left, nothing and nobody. The 1 to the right, Always fully stocked with products And friendly staff. I wonder which 1 us the clone. 🤔
They're reproducing. One's male, one's female - hence the milk.
I'm serious when I say our local Dollar General closed down... To build a larger Dollar General on the other side of the street. I don't mean metaphorically; I mean you can walk in a straight line from the abandoned building to the currently operating store.
The only thing that surprises me is the other one is closed! 😂😂😂
One was a rented/leased property. The new building is owned, like Stonehenge.
@@AzerinaM It's not really "closed" in the sense of "shut down".
It's only dormant - sometimes for years - waiting, waiting, waiting...
I love how no one questioned why he had a brick before the presentation
I literally am watching this in Dollar General.
Will you see if they have any ink cartridges?
I'm about to head there now! I'm addicted to the "Everything $1 aisle!" 😁
@@ItsaSouthernThing hey from the big fan when y'all were at 1k
I suppose that's inevitable, considering the entire US will soon be nested inside at least one layer of Dollar Generals.
Is it the nested one inside the other one
"Those are red boxes, and neither one of them has the movie you're looking for" lmao
Bailey Brian 🤣🤣
I was watching that just as I read this. (Actually, just finished.)
For real though!
Redbox is for those who don’t want to go to the library.
When we visited Kentucky this summer, my wife and I stated playing "Slug General" with the kids. It's like "Slug Bug" but with Dollar General. We have them in South Dakota, but not on every corner of every town and cornfield.
My tiny town has seven and if you drive about ten minutes outside of town in any direction you can find another one. I'm in Kentucky so image one of y'all's arm was bruised by the state line.
Don’t drive through Ky/Tn.. you’ll beat each other half to death 😂😂
Just give it time. I get to see the map growing every year.
Yet!😏
As a DG assistant manger, the fully staffed store is what I wish all the stores in my area could say. We can barely keep up with keeping our backroom even half way empty. We have so much overstock and seasonal items for spring and summer that it takes up 2/3 of our stock room. It's insane! We make the joke that you know your town is finally big enough when you get a DG, lol.
As a former DG employee, I can confirm we had to repel the attacks from the tumor-like second store in our stockroom. If it wasn't for our abundant supply of various paper towels the blood from the War Of The Stores might have overwhelmed us.
Missed an opportunity to say Store Wars
@@Broomer52 store wars episode 2: attack of the gnomes
To mop up the blood or to clot it?
Pm 0
"They're turning into Russian nesting dolls."
"We aren't building new stores. The're building themselves."
You guys are comedy gold. That's multiplying.
Dennis, this is the grave danger of AI.
I work at Dollar General and I can confirm that we have halloween, easter, and christmas candy at this very moment.
Even here in Ohio we've got more DGs than gnats at an August barbecue.
Also in Ohio, can confirm. You can't throw a rock without hitting one dg or another. "Nah we gotta go to the one down by the high school its so much better."
“Calm down Allen”
“You calm down Karen!”
😂
I was trying to find out if anyone made this comment lol
"Sweet Clover Valley!"
Almost choked on my Clover Valley Black Cherry Flavored Sparkling Water when he said that!
I choked on my Clover Valley Caramel Coffee. Wasn't expecting that😂😂😂
I thought he meant the SCARY MOVIE!
*looks over at Clover Valley Raspberry tea*
....I understand...👀😶
So glad they're getting rid of clover valley cuz that stuff is nasty!
I almost choked on my clover valley chinese pressed ham and processed cheese sand!!
It should have been Starbucks, Walmart, and Mc Donald’s
Oh, those are coming to a Dollar Store near you soon.
Yea but only Walmart is Southern. The other two are just Yankee interlopers.
There are more Subway locations than McDonalds in the world 45K vs 38K.
Please visit Mississippi where you will find them more often then road signs in the middle of nowhere.
Nah, having Subway is pretty spot on; I have 3 of them within a 5 mile radius.
The crazy part is, like Walmart, no one wants to work there. They run you until you drop then treat you like crap.
They work you 39 hours so they don't have to pay insurance. They keep check on those hours so you don't go over that 39, not even a minute...39.1😵
“What are those red things?”
“Oh, they’re Redboxes. And neither one of them has the movie your looking for.”
So true y’all 😂
I busted out and snorted on the "Redbox"! Hillarious!!
I worry about the viability of a move to "TV"...maybe a streamed series on Netflix or the like...
I found a video I WASN'T looking for. At a good deal.
Or never works like the one in front of the Dollar General in my town.
Read this comment as he was saying it LoL 😂
"Sweet Clover Valley"!!!
That was so funny!
😂
That is their store brand fyi. And they want restock it for days at a time. No C.V. chips for 8 days at my DG. No lunch meat (NONE) for 4 days. But someone is ALWAYS on smoke break. I started keeping track. I go every day or 2 (on foot and they are 3 blocks away) and in the last 11 WEEKS someone has been on smoke break EVERY time!!! If I lived closer to walk-mart I would go there.
There is a Dollar General sadly missing for Langston, Alabama. Please DG put a store in this remote vacation destination and for residents who must travel 20 miles for a gallon of milk.
I work at a DG, and my boss showed this to us last week. This is one of the funniest and most accurate things I have seen in a long time.
I used to work at DG’s headquarters, and I’d actually seen the store map and the store list. This is freaking hilarious!
I don't believe you. No way they have a map just hanging on the wall. They'd have to reprint it every day. lol!
@@SuperSirianRigel don't need to print it every day takes time to open stores because they actually have to build a lot of them due to in the middle of no where.
How many locations when you were there?
@@SuperSirianRigel The map was digital, not hanging on a wall - and it was always a little bit out of date each time I saw it. The store list was always more up to date than the map.
@@ronaldmccutcheon1329 I don't remember any exact location count, but over 15,000.
Make sure that when that wallgreens opeans up there's a cvs right across the street or right next door to it. They cant be separated.
Trying to figure out who's stalking who
The Cstore formula. 1 store at an intersection 1X business volume. 2 Stores, both do _more_ than 1X business.
ICanCU88
We have that exact situation in Moore, OK
I have traveled a lot in the south , and if you find CVS,,theres Walgreens !
Lol it’s hilarious watching these cuz I live in the south. Texas to be specific, it’s so accurate. We have the same situation down here
And the DG stores are always busy! There might be 300 people in town and three DG stores and each store has over a hundred customers a day! For real crazy.
"This isn't a problem...this is an opportunity!" LMAO ole' boy spent some time as a district manager I see! Definitely has the language down 😂😂
I worked for Dollar General for 3 years. This skit is accurate. (There are 4 DGs within 5 miles of me.)
Friendly reminder during holidays and every day: the everyday employees are overworked, underpaid, stores are understaffed, they get no benefits, and are just trying to keep a roof over their heads. Be nice. Please don't accuse the cashier of bait-and-switch because they have no control over sales, ads, and pricing. Thank you.
I was in my local Dollar G recently, and one employee was checking another's lunchbox to make sure they weren't shoplifting. They do it every time they come and go. I don't see how they get anyone to work there.
I don't blame the folks working there I blame their management. It's absolutely ridiculous to have two people working one store. The stock is never on the shelves, the aisles are so crowded you can barely walk through them. I'm honestly surprised no one has brought an ADA lawsuit against them. Because they serve a population where it may be the only store for miles they have a responsibility to be able to serve all their customers, not just the ones who are able to leapfrog the boxes in the aisles.
If I had to guess, corporate is focused solely on expansion, instead of the stores themselves, which is replicating Kmart in the 70's. Sounds good on paper, but if you're not setup to handle a large amount of stores, it's going to collapse on you one day, just like it did Kmart in the mid-90's when they narrowly escaped bankruptcy.
It’s disgusting the way they treat their people. I was in a DG one day and there was only one girl working. She had a transport truck delivering in back, three vendors delivering up front, a store full of customers and the main office had her on a conference call at the same time, which she said she could not get out of. They restrict the amount of employee hours they can use every week! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone into one of these stores and seen a manager crying, because supervisors treat them worse than dogs. I used to be a vendor, but I have not been in one of these hell holes since I retired!
I worked at one years ago, it was basically shoving 10 gallons of crap into a 5 gallon bucket, only place I've ever gotten yelled at for trying to put something back where it belonged. Then I swear they hire truck drivers even Swift won't touch, let's put a case of light bulbs on the bottom and throw a case of detergent on them.
I’ve been to some random out of the way places on road trips and Dollar General is the only thing that is EVERYWHERE. No gas station, yes dollar general. It’s bizarre.
A 10-mile stretch of lonely Southern highway. Nothing but farms and 4 DGs.
There aren’t very many where I live. There are some but not anymore than every other store
I've been saying for the last few years Dollar General needs to start selling gas.
@@MichaelRabbitBass3 the stores built into unused walmart buildings have gas.
@@stgermain1074
That's poetry right there.
"Sweet Clover Valley!" 🤣Thats a gem for the real dollar general shoppers
This is the most wholesome channel I’ve ever seen.
I LOVE THAT
I am a dollar general employee, everything about this is real
Yep..at the store I work, we have Halloween full force, Harvest, a little bit, and Christmas started....plus end of summer items...
Same
Wow
Yeah my mom is a store manager at dollar general so
Oh my lol.
The funniest part is that the building at the beginning is really the DG headquarters in Goodlletsville
ok I'm not the only one who recognized it 😂 I came here to say the same thing
I think you mean Dollargeneralville, Dollar General County, Dollar Generalsvania, U.S.D.G.
The HQ is in a place that sounds like Goodlletsbuildit ... 😗 Eerie!
I swear, this one NEVER gets old!!!!
So this is what Unchecked Capitalism Leads to...
(A Dollar General Has Opened Up in this Post)
Do one on Walmart’s lack of open registers.
Southerners don't go to Walmart unless they have to, they go to Kroger's and Piggly wiggly
Yessssss....
Yes, and how you must use self checkout for your entire cartfull of groceries and every 5th item triggers the blinking red light and "Please wait for assistance" error but there is NO ONE around to offer assistance....oh, sorry.
As a Walmart employee i would laugh my ass off🤣🤣
@@nataliakopsie6345 ik a good number of Southerners who go to Walmart over Kroger's
This isn't a joke. As of March 2019 there are over 15,000 Dollar General stores in the USA. They're definitely breeding.
Like all those Be Franklin stores that eventually turned into Walmart.
They're so cheap and so easy to customize what any given location stocks that they can survive anywhere there's a lot to build one on. It's insane.
It’s about 23,000 now
@@andrewcostel4821 wow
The good news is the 7-11 infection is under control
Dollar Tree is much better. Everything in DG is getting higher and higher priced. Many of the things they sell are actually cheaper at Walmart and Target. 😟
They’re both GREAT!!!!!!
My husband grew up in a very tiny rural town in middle GA. Their claim to fame is nine roads and a blinky light (that they only got around 30 years ago). About 300 people on a good day when nobody died. 2 churches and an old gas station that is now a chicken place. That’s it EXCEPT for what they call the Mall - yep, it’s a Dollar General. Now that they have it, they don’t have to drive the 30-50 miles to the nearest Wally World. Totally worth any extra $ in time and gas. ;)
Kids and I say:
*DT for LIFE!!!!*
I'm at the point where someone has to pay ME to go in a Walmart. Target's got a minute yet...
Isn't Dollar Tree an actual dollar store? (everything cost a dollar), or has that changed? Dollar General is a mini-mini Walmart, so there is no everything is a dollar there
There's like 20 dollar generals within a a 10 mile radius of my house I swear to god 😆
"Calm down Alan. "
"yOu CaLm DoWn KaReN"
I've been quoting that for the past week now
"Those are redboxes"
almost spit out my coffee XD
Ya’ll that was brilliant,I think I have 5 Dollar General stores within a 6 mile radius of my house
I’m a typewriter collector and I drove through SC today to go get one. I saw a grand total of 12 Dollar Generals. I thought of your skits the entire time
There's a Dollar General that just self replicated itself at the end of my block!
Sorry to hear it
Here's hoping it turns into a Walgreens! 😀
You could also have said Mattress Firm!
You lucky. We ain't got one, just 7/11.
There's 13 Dollar Generals in a 5 mile radius of my location.
Sounds right. One every 15 miles away here
There’s one or two in every small town around us but none in the town I live in . Too large a town.
“YOU CALM DOWN KAREN!”
“Oh, those are Red Boxes, and neither one of them have the movie you’re looking for.”
I mean, best comment EVER!!!
I see "Dollar General is out of control." and I being a Dollar General Worker I feel this video so much.
Same
saaaaame lmaooo
Same
God I hope you get your TV show!
I honestly had no idea what dollar general was until these videos. We don't have many in the pacific northwest. Dollar tree is what people recognize.
I manage at two dollar generals, I love this.
Is that like a Dollar tree but "2" dollars for everything?
"Sweet Clover Valley!" That was the best! 🤣
We literally have 2 dollar generals within 5 miles of each other.
In my town there are two within sight of each other. It's about 2-3 blocks between them.
Same
We have Dollar Tree, DG and Family Dollar all in a row, right beside each other.🤨
Only 2 within 5 miles?
We are a small town of 8000 people and we have two now, only two miles apart. The next town over has only 5000 people and they also have two--on the same street, one mile apart.
I'm all for a sitcom as long as Matt is the star👍
This is so true. We are a small town and already had 3 Dollar Generals and ANOTHER one popped up a quarter mile down from an existing one. You can see the store from the other store!
The thing I hate is. THE ISLES ARE SO SMALL AND EVERYTIME THEY ARE STOCKING THE SHELF SO U CANT PASS. every. Time.
The aisles aren’t so small.
@@duplicateify are at my store
@@gracewhite2685 yeah same it's like 3 between them
I went to an IGA where it was literally 18 inches between aisles! BARELY able to fit a cart through it. You talk about small aisles!
My dollar general is overstocked. stuff is everywhere and I still can't find anything I need :( lol
I remember going on family vacations and traveling through Georgia on our way to the Florida panhandle and my brother and I made up a game. Every time one of us saw a Dollar General, we had to give the other person a dollar. Needless to say, we ended up changing a dollar to a quarter which was eventually changed to a penny. That game ended up being expensive.
The “last year” map made me spit out my hot chocolate!!!! 😂
Three DG's and Three Subways in my town, one DG on each end and one in the middle, next to three subways in the MIDDLE.
SWEET CLOVER VALLEY!
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It's a Southern Thing -- don't see it....
No, don’t give them money. They will buy drugs and stage props.
I work at the Dollar General corporate office, and this is literally my everyday life. I can't decide if I love this more for its many accuracies or hate it more for its equal number of inaccuracies. XD XD XD
I work for Dollar General as well and there is no problem that can't be fixed. You just have to hire another manager.
@@sokyoutdoors588 most of the crap on here from disgruntled ex-employees are only there because people don't want to WORK for their check. Is this the best job I ever had? No. Is it the worst? Not by a long shot. There's hours to be had, if you wanna work.
Fix your digital coupons so they actually work. Quit keeping employees in poverty.
@@Videostoredontgo digital coupons work just fine if you clip them before you try to use them, and actually read the exceptions. Neither the manufacturer, nor Dollar General are going to help you commit retail fraud. Learn how coupons work and stop arguing policy with the cashier. It's posted at the checkout, and you don't have a clue how it works. Your assignment is to read policy for COMPREHENSION. I don't have to fix your screw ups with coupons, just because you don't understand how they work. I will NOT, however, return and re-ring your items because you forgot your frigging coupon. Your lack of preparedness, on your part, does not constitute an emergency, on mine. Get yourself together and stop expecting personal shoppers when you walk through the door. You'll get a lot more assistance and genuine help if you stop acting so entitled, actually be accountable for your own life.
Sweet Clover Valley!
"Sweet Clover Valley" such an underated line
No lie, here in Michigan we went on a nice trip all around the state a couple years ago, and we kept track of how many Dollar Generals we passed. We were in the high 30's and that was even avoiding major arteries for the 'scenic route.'
"Sweet Clover Valley!" lol
There are 21 Dollar Generals in a 10 mile radius of where I live at in Florida.
Joshua Baratheon
You must be in Orange City.
There is a Family Dollar & 2 Dollar Trees within 2mi of me, metro Orlando FL. I'm sure a few Dollar Generals are close.
This is still my favorite video on IST! Every time I start the videos to watch again, this video is always the first one!! My new catch phrase? "Sweet Clover Valley"!
I recently was on a train ride through the rural south and by god, there may not have been houses or churches for 90% of the route but there were at least 2 dollar generals every 5 minutes
Yes this is true. There's 4 dollar general stores within a 10 mile radius of my house. They are everywhere.
They have 15,300 stores and opened 950 in 2019 : O They really are out of control.
Dollar General just celebrated opening its 16,000th store a little over a month ago.
They have opened 100 more since.
Nuts! 🛒. Wawa & Walgreens did that in central FL to the point a few closed 🏚. Bad mgmt & over speculation. 7-11s over saturated too but they level out. Orlando FL at 1 point had 4, four ☕ Starbucks within 1.5mi . 1 in a Target, 2 cafes, 1 in a B&N 📚. They had 3 cafes but that only lasted about 2yr.
They are planning to open 1,500 stores next year
@@loganwhite8375 lighten up my friend. This was posted on a comedy channel.
My wife and myself live in Michigan. We just watched this video about 3 months ago. Three weeks ago, we went to Virginia to visit my sister. My God there really are DG's just about everywhere!
Duuuude this channel is called a southern thing i already know I'm gonna love it here.
Ngl, I was expected a dude in a Walmart shirt to pop up at the end.
I was expecting Starbucks lol
Target has been opening lots of mini stores.
Ikr
Dollar General and Dollar Tree are underrated! I got a dress from Dollar General that I get the most compliments out of anything I own.
I'll agree with you on the Tree. The Dollar G gets the rating it deserves.
Bought a dress at DG and wore it to my friend's wedding. Then another friend borrowed it to wear to a wedding. Two weddings out of a $5 dress.
Does the dress fall past your waist? Just thinkin' there may be good reason for those compliments
DG gets a lot of hate - though, I guess some of it is deserved. I used to work at a DG and we were lucky to have an OCD great manager so our ratings we're the best in our district. I'd go to another DG just 15 miles away and it was like they were in a contest to see how many boxes they could stack on top of each other in the isles.
Sweet Clover Valley!!! They sell clothing???? 😂😂😂😂
The real challenge is to find one that's fully stocked and DOESN'T look like a tornado ripped through it.
Sweet Clover Valley! 😀😃😄
YOU calm down Karen! 😂 I just love Matt to pieces!
Matt is my favorite. 🙂
Same
Me too, man. Ya can't hate Matt
Always a Dollar General EVERYWHERE. And they're ALWAYS dirty as hell.
Well Dollar stores aren't for people who are home trained
Well, they're actually not everywhere. I live in a stuck-up town full of boutiques and designer stores that sell useless junk for extraordinary prices. It's a 20-minute drive to my closest DG where the useless junk is much more reasonably priced.
That Dollar General probably just gave birth to 20 smaller Dollar Generals so cut it some slack please.
not all are
@@ItsaSouthernThing - All that self-replicatin' is some dirty bidness.
The employees at the end are all thinking “Is this the beginning of an evil plan or the end of a practical joke?”
There are 3 within 8 miles, on the same road, right by my house! 🤣🤣🤣
This is the SNL of the south
Kind of, except its funny and entertaining unlike SNL.
@@kmarchman1047 Not since John Belushi was ironically the first of the original cast to die.
Actually this is funnier than SNL. SNL has sucked crap for years
@@kmarchman1047 til Eddie Murphy stormed in just recently.
isn't SNL just politics?
One was built right beside the main entrance to a golfing/development right down the road. YIPEEEE! They about birthed a bovine! The development, that is!
Two appeared on my ride to work-one in front of an abandoned burned out bowling alley
Dollar General is the kudzu of retail. Seriously, there are 5 DGs, each 4 to 6 miles from my house: one north, one NE, one west, one SE and one south. No joke.
And in all those stores you gotta weave around the big carts with the boxes in them.
Hey, that’s a picture of the actual DG headquarters in Goodlettsville, TN!
Kay325 I used to pass by it on
my way through Nashville...
Kind of reminds me of Monster Doughnut... (Props to anyone who gets the reference!)
I get recomended this video once a month or so, and every time, it never ceases to make me laugh
Soon enough, we’ll all be LIVING in dollar generals, our kids will be born in dollar general. We’ll have family gatherings and graduations..in dollar general. We live and die by the dollar general..all hail dollar general!
“Sweet Clover Valley!” LOL! 😂
This is SOOOOO FUNNNNNY. GREAT JOB. I love that, "they said they were store 740"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Find Walmart on a map, follow each main road away from it and you'll find a DG. It's a genius plan. You get in your car and start to Walmart for a few items. Toilet paper, laundry detergent and a loaf of bread for example. You dread the trip because you know that while you're going after three things, you'll some how end up with at least a dozen things. Then you see that Dollar General sitting there across the road from the trailer park or subdivision. It's a lot closer to your house, you won't have to walk a mile to get in the store, after which you have to walk another mile to round up your items. So your mind says, screw it. Stop here instead! You're in, your out and at worst you bought a candy bar and a bottle of something to drink extra. You may have paid a dollar or two more but you saved a lot by not buying all that extra stuff you didn't want in the first place. Over time you cut your trips to the big box store down to maybe once a week and find yourself at the Dollar General more. Someone in the Dollar General corporation got a big promotion out of this.