"Lost $4 Billion" - $.99 Cents Stores Close 371 Locations Nationwide Due To Crime & Inflation
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- Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana discuss 99 Cents Only Stores closing nationwide due to theft and inflation.
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150 billion for Ukraine.... Every time I hear about a financial loss in the United States, my first thought is 150 billion for Ukraine. Absolute insanity.
Don’t forget the other country that has a religious book that permits them to do all kinds of evil, & hides behind the title of “chosen”
Most of that is spent on purchasing supplies and equipment from the US, so it's not like they just handed them a bag.
I totally do, too; that kinda money is absolutely mind-blowing! That's like every single American paying almost $500 towards their war. 🤯
Absolutely right is a joke.
Yep and in the democrat pockets!
Im old enough to remember when stealing actually was a crime.
I'm old enough to remember the 5c & dime store
Oh god. Go steal then see if you dont go to jail. And are you saying police aint doing there jobs?
It still is. The amount of rime is overwhelming and LE just cannot keep up with it.
I'm old enough to remember getting an ass whooping by mom and dad for even thinking about stealing, actually all I had to do was ask my parents for stuff like candies or the toys at the grocery stores
Biden’s America makes crime legitimate!
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This makes you think about how external factors like crime and inflation can really impact businesses, even ones as big as $.99 Cents Stores.
And let's not forget the impact of crime. Not only does it directly affect the safety of customers and employees, but it also adds additional costs for security measures, further squeezing already tight margins.
It's a tough situation all around. With inflation eating into profits and crime increasing operational expenses, it's no wonder they're facing such significant challenges.
Perhaps they could have diversified their revenue streams or invested more heavily in technology to improve efficiency and security measures.
Seeking advice from financial experts could have provided them with strategies to better navigate these turbulent economic times.
A firm like Folmar Advisory could have offered insights into how to adapt their business model to better withstand the impacts of inflation and crime, ultimately helping them mitigate losses and sustain profitability.
Imagine a store you can steal 900 items from and not be charged.
It’s the .99 cent store its only a misdemeanor if it’s under 1000$ stolwn
*STOLEN
@@Zambobazle That’s the point of the original post.
Sears did not get as much headline as 99 cents store closure and bankruptcy. The reason is because this is symbolic of the true economic situation in the US and what the cabal has always waged economic warfare on the poor and middle class. Socialism for the rich, but social darwinist capitalism for the poor.
One time I actually saw the police stop someone but guess what? They just counted the items! I guess it wasn’t more than $900 because they let the guy go 🫠
I literally LIVED off of that store when I lived in Burbank. So sad. So many of us did.
Burbank was stocked with good stuff.
Still do
Nice city in S. California . Hope it stays that way ... 😊👌
If you still live in Cali and required to "live" off the dollar stores, don't you think it's time to move out of state? We are hurting financially all over this once great country, but I'll bet you a dollar it's far worse in California than it is in, let's say Louisiana... I'm not pretending to have all the answers here, I'm just trying to raise talking points.
Burbank here , use to be a clean city and now it’s getting like north Hollywood
Shoplifting hurts us all.
This is what you get when you normalize and worship criminals!!!
This is by design. Wake up. Awareness buys you time, time buys you options - until it doesn’t. Stay awake, aware, and prepared.
SO sad. When my wife and I were raising two kids and taking care of her elderly mom on a youth pastor pay, we ate countless meals on killer deals from that chain that cost us just five bucks or so. Hundreds of thousands of poor people are gonna have more trouble feeding their families now.
The US gov't killed these stores. Without the 25% tariffs on Made in China, these companies would have a 25% profit margin, it is NOT theft and inflation, but the tariff on China that killed these stores. Chinese workers also lose jobs
You can sell your private jet and help
Dems love it
Not to worry - the 'Hod and El Barrio guys will just seal more.
That's exactly the point. One side of the political spectrum LOVES it when people struggle because struggling people vote for the people who say they're going to give them this or that. They don't deliver on those promises, but that doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is garnering votes based on those promises. The politicians keep obtaining power and making money, while the struggling people keep voting for empty promises. It's a sick, endless cycle that naive and uninformed people will continue to fall victim to.
That theft rate is shameful
The US gov't killed these stores. Without the 25% tariffs on Made in China, these companies would have a 25% profit margin, it is NOT theft and inflation, but the tariff on China that killed these stores.
Yes it is . But the government is stealing as well both parties so if the head is not right the bottom is not right.
Sears did not get as much headline as 99 cents store closure and bankruptcy. The reason is because this is symbolic of the true economic situation in the US and what the cabal has always waged economic warfare on the poor and middle class. Socialism for the rich, but social darwinist capitalism for the poor. Propaganda from right wing pundits.
Who in the heck is stealing from the dollar store ? They will get nothing for their efforts, when they re-sale it. Strange eh ?
@albertawheat6832 yeah good point. That's how hard the chain store was being hit. Margins are no doubt tight and the degenerates have to steal loads to make anything
I'm gonna miss the 99c store. That store helped me raise my 3 children as a single mom. My heart goes out to the hundred of thousands of folk that survived by buying their meals and sundries there. Hopefully someone will create a new lowcost store for us.
Thanks for covering this...
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Here in Japan, the ¥100 or $1 stores need to constantly innovate. They have $3 sections and $5 section, but the key market is ¥100 which with todays exchange rate is $1.50. They are amazingly good, but they do not have any shoplifting, theft, or social mob issues. The business model is sound in Asia, but shoplifters go to jail when convicted. This is social issue, not a profitability issue.
Not yet .
What exactly is "amazingly good" about the dollar stores in japan?
Id like to hear all about them from you
True that! This is one effed up administration !
You got that backwards. $1usd is about 150yen so 100 yen is about 0.66 USD.
99% conviction rate is the best policy.
Who the hell is doing flash mob robberies for 99 cent stores. This is a new low
It's not about need. It's about destroying what others have.
All that candy man you trippin
who do you think is doing it???
blks
@@theImpaler710true poet 😅
Too many, if not all, black pastorsI have seen have complained loudly about the loss of these stores in their neighborhood but NOT one of these pastors will stand guard at the store's door and deny their 'people' the right to steal.
99 Cent are one of the FEW stores that sell fresh fruits and veggies in the hood. These same people complain about “food deserts”, but drive businesses away with higher minimum wages and rampant theft. I don’t have sympathy for these jerks any more.
@@desolder75 Exactly. This is an education problem. If you want to fix the hood if it is even possible cause blacks are not the only race that has a hood. It is about having means and pushing for education for better jobs. People want the community to work together but our leaders do not even work together for the better of this country and humanity in general.
They do the same thing in Africa. As soon as a hospital is stocked with supplies it gets looted. Then they wonder why the healthcare sucks. Humans have flourished due to our ability to cooperate in large groups. Lesser species, such as chimps, operate in small tribes and lack the ability to think ahead. Imagine 1,000 chimps locked in a stadium? It would be mayhem. Violence, theft, etc. Think the Superdome during hurricane Katrina. Some people just can't function in a civilized society.
Not a Pastor's job dude.
I remember people arguing when I told them it couldn’t be 99 cents only forever.
They had on their wall “Nothing over 99 cents EVER”.
Five and dime stores used to be ubiquitous. They became 5 and 10 dollar stores because of inflation. Still didn’t save them from bankruptcy, and now such stores are very rare.
At least the Dollar Tree is now the $1.25 🌳. They now have a + section with $3-5 items because they’re losing money. I go to Five Below and they actually have decent stuff. (I thought it was a sub-zero winter store when I first heard of it!😊)
What are you talking about? They started selling stuff over 99 cents like 8 years ago.
I love Tom because you can tell there's a rage that's constantly bubbling under the surface that he's struggling to maintain.
Soon, it will be called 5 Dollar Store !
5 below
if a big mac is $18, it might turn into $99 store.
Yeah, they're called Dollar General.
1.25 to 1.50 dollar store
Or parking lot. Then they don't have to give you anything.
There is no prosecution any more for retail theft. Its a free for all. I dont see how any Business can operate with a forced $20/wage and rampant theft.
I called it a while back... stores are going to switch to online only and you won't even be able to walk into a store. don't have to pay cashiers, don't have to lease property, don't have to get the product shipped from the distribution warehouse to the stores. they would save massive amounts of money... never mind what they save from shoplifters being stopped.
This is a tragedy. We have to stop these people in power.
go
The solution is simple. Don't vote for soft on crime Democrats. But, the people that are affected the most, keep voting for Democrats.
It's a tra-gig-ity.
Gigity.
The actual "tragedy" started after WW2 and the military industrial complex. We the people had no clue until this issue started rearing it's ugly head over 30 years ago, visible to anybody paying attention.
@@adeel333amjad😂😂😂😂
Ask the military for help. See what happens.
In the UK, the £1 stores, are called the same, but everything is £2
... and poundland has gone worse, though there are still some bargains considering the price of things in the UK.
Temu! An important thing to note. Temu has taken the ‘hit or miss’ item availability issue with these dollar stores out and often offers items for cheaper. They are buying up our land. They are coming for our auto industry. We need to be self reliant.
My ex- husband was an assistant manager with K-Mart. The manager of the store was selling pallets of products to the black market. I couldn’t believe it. And corporate thought this idiot…but come to find out? The regional manager was in on it too. I made him quit.
99¢ doesn’t get you what it once did in this economy.
It’s the theft
It never does. That's how an economy works. 100 years ago, 99 cents bought your whole family food for a week.
What do you expect
@@Thebob6😂 I think 🤔 blaming theft is ridiculous 🙄. It's basically an excuse. I know plenty of regular customers who are are poor, middle class and rich....who shopped there spending hard earnings.
They're not thieves.
they dont want you to be able to afford anything for $1
They should re-open as $9.99 store
Or 2.99 only 😂
Pat out here in so cal thefts are horrible. I was at a Ross store where 2 individuals filled bags full with goods. Manager could only watch. Car out front
Two "individuals." 😂
Same old, same old.
@@malachi- what do you mean?
@@rudydesi Amish?
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I would be dead of starvation without these stores back in my 20s
these store were there to help the poor, and it did.
I drove by a .99 store in LV in 2012 and they were registering people to vote out front. My buddy said: *"What a great place to find Democrats!"* 😂😂 They keep Digging their own graves.💀
You ain't right 🤣😂🤣😂
Nobody has ever accused them of being intelligent.
The poorest states are red, these stores should have been in those states. To think that trailer park and rural folks have money is crazy. Isn’t Ben Shapiro in favor of making yah work until 💀 to cut social security ?
Not gonna lie kinda a cheap shot at those who voted right wing only but shop there as they don't have a choice. Speaks more to the policies of consistently voting that way and nothing changes. It's almost like voting doesn't do anything about your living situation.
@@christopherm202dcfinest2"poor" is inaccurate. Blue states simply have the biggest cities. And highest crime, lowest punishment for criminals, and highest taxes. "yah" not very smart, is you?
It’s hard to imagine them loosing that much money to close. The store near me was always packed with people. Yet, even though i’ve never seen it happen at my store I’m sure it was happening. The laws in California allow theft. I feel really bad for the customers/people who relied on that store for their produce, school supplies and home products
Drug stores here in Philly look like jewelry stores now. Everything is locked behind glass and you need to get a clerk with a key to buy anything.
Shout out to your father that worked at the $.99 store for 15 years! I always appreciate the cashiers. I used to be one at Sears.
A hard work and thankless job. I always appreciate cashiers. So sorry for the ones at the 99 cent stores. They worked so hard for so little money and now unemployment! Hope they are able to find employment sooner rather than later.
I love this store, this hurts the American family big time
You mean it hurts the thieves?!
The US gov't killed these stores. Without the 25% tariffs on Made in China, these companies would have a 25% profit margin, it is NOT theft and inflation, but the tariff on China that killed these stores.
@@shannysunshine8389 no! it hurts the poor.
Only in cali. Never heard of these stores oh well you voted for them this is your return happy trails!
@@IMurderdTheDevilnot really 99cent store raised thier prices. Even thier expired products cost the same as the non expired product in a normal grocery store. That store was ripping off people. It used to be a fun store but not anymore. 2 chip bags for $7. Nah 99cent store time to go. Wincos prices are better. 1.99 for big bag of chips .better deals in winco.
Law is too comfortable for criminals
What laws?
Even when laws were very bad crimes were still being commited. As of right now we are living in a world where we are commited less crimes every year.
@@NakedEyes-lm3bj laws in general if you look into a country that has less crimes they laws are usually way more strict than ours
@@user-je8fz3oh3k yes I agree to certain extent imagine we had capital punishment for rape and murders we will have less of rape and murders it’s proven in a lot of countries
Sad thing is.....they're STILL going to do nothing about crime.
Look for all of the stolen items in bodegas and other stores like that
Nah its Blacks Mexicans work hard
FJB
How mature and original.
@@ScottH. mature....like the children JB is allowing to be mutilated w/ out parent's consent?
@@ScottH., still hurts we see? Ok then double #fjb &fbo
@@ScottH.shut up
@NastyFruit another child has come to comment.
Can you research and do a story about why China is allowed to buy farmland in America? I also have been told they are buying it near major military structures?
China is buying everything!
We need to say no!!!
China now owns most American vacuum cleaner brands under TTI Corp. such as: Hoover, Eureka, Royal and Dirt Devil. China's TTI Corp. is owned by the Peoples Revolutionary Army.
In Australia we used to have the $2 shop. Same concept, everything $2 or under. And they'd have a huge variety of products.
2010-2015 they started to disappear - post covid they are gone.
Dang. Love PBDs content he covers everything
He is a fox news puppet clown.
I have been buying bibles at these stores in bulk for my homeless feeds in Skid Row for many years as well as snacks for the homeless. Democrat policies will continue to ruin our country. GOD Bless
Couldn’t find a more appropriate place to sell them.😂😂 Sometimes it takes money to acquire intelligence. Note that books from Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens cost a great deal more. You get what you pay for.
There was a grocery store in Chicago I believe , that was looted so bad that every item was stolen or on the floor and damaged. Except the fruit somewhat survived and young lady filming aftermath was crying that they destroyed her means of food and products for her and her child and was absolutely distraught over it.
Can we stop using the term "Shrinkage"? They didn't have items on the shelves which dried out and shrunk, they had stuff which was STOLEN.
America is in full retrograde.
yes.
I hate to say it, but my business college professor joked to never compete on prices as we will never beat Walmart.
That's not what did them in
@@BDM7 It is not stealing I tell you that. They are using that as an excuse. Stealing has ALWAYS BEEN THERE.
Shout out to your Pops!! Humble beginnings🙌🏾❤️❤️
They were gone a decade ago in Canada. They stayed open but just sell things for a few $ instead on 99 cents
It never fails, the same people who yell for equality, reparations, bail reform, etc, are the same ones who make the policies, and laws, that destroy these communities, and others. It's like telling your dog to run free, while keeping it on the leash, never allowing it to actually be free....
Blame the blacks I see
The insanity is there are people who want to vote for this madness for another 4 years!
Chinese demographics are in danger so the cheap surplus is ending. Even then the theft in which liberal states try to profit from inmate facilities $30,000 per each person. There trying to build a prison state.
@@AndyonBlastblame those who put the blacks into a position where they have to sacrifice their morals for status gain at the expense of the community.
@@AndyonBlast OMG...please catch up.
BTW, Harriet Tubman has been dead for a year or two.
.99 has been selling some products for over .99 for a few years now.
These shoplifters are going to hurt all of us in more ways than just the price going up. They need to be dealt with extreme prejudice.
More democrat lawlessness.
What lawlessness? You do know they did not remove any laws right?
It's the culture of poor people...I used to have to have an apartment building, and thieves used to pry the coin box of the washer / dryer....the take is usually 30 to 40 dollars....used to cost me 200 dollars to fix the coinbox...nobody cared..
Of 🏀🏀 people . Specifically .
All homeowners about to get heavy taxation for spring and fall.
not just home owners, the more you make the more you pay for electricity.
In the 1990's, i bought the 99 minutes telephone card for 99¢ at my local 99¢ only store when it just opened in Henderson NV. And everything then was just 99¢ in that store. End of an era. The booming 1990' were great. Never to return again.
This is all intentional
When hasn't it been?
I’m sure the $20 minimum wage increase for a business like .99 store was the nail in the coffin.
The $20 minimum wage in California only applies to fast food restaurants. Those workers at the 99 Cent Store didn't get an increase.
only restaurants.
Bro is Restarted
Told my youngest adult daughter about this and her first response was "mom, what's going to happen to those who can't afford regular grocery stores"? I am bias of course but we need more people like her. Glad to see the CEO of Pick and Save trying to do something about it.
Tell her the truth: they eat at McDonalds.
Unlikely that the former CEO of Big Lots Mark Miller will be able to raise the money from banks, venture capital, hedge funds or private investors. 99 cent stores was sold to a private equity firm in 2011 for $1.6 billion so in 2024 it would probably take at least $400 million just to buy the California stores plus $100 million to operate them in the first year, but that's not even looking at the debt which could kill any deal. To raise that money would be impossible in a business environment where no one wants to fund brick & mortar retail, too many have failed in the last three years due to high inflation, supply chain problems, gigantic shoplifting.
this is my Favorite store. Im so upset. Thanks Biden
After 2020, I noticed I wouldn't go to a 99 cent store without seeing robberies every time. While this contributes to their closure, it was failed to be menfioned that the 99 cent chain was bought out by hedge funds and mismanaged similarly to Sears and Kmart, with the intention to profit and then close them down.
But paying off student loans will totally help the economy 😡... That move is gonna backfire so hard.
They buy new cars . They go on vacation.
How?
@@mikikiki I was being facetious, we already have a big problem with inflation
yah its going to go straight to the Banks ... the top 1% rich people
@@rogerbennett2025 and people blessed enough to get an education paid for by people who couldn't
A Snickers bar was $.25 in Houston, TX in 1982.
I remember candy bars for 5 cents in 1971. One day I went in and the girl said 7 cents the 10 years old that was my introduction to inflation LOL that was in Southern California
It's now 11% smaller than it was in 2019, and the price is now $1.59. In 2019 it was 89 cents. In 2016 it was 89 cents. In 2010 it was 79 cents. In 2000 it was 69 cents. (I like Snickers if you can't tell). This means the price has gone up more in 4 years of the r*****d Biden Kid***er, than it has under 4 years of Trump, 8 years of Obama, 8 years of Bush and 8 years of Clinton... C O M B I N E D ....And millions of people will vote for Biden again. God save us all.
In Detroit, candybars were $0.40 in 1982.
They were under $1 less than 10 years ago... Now they are $2.79 or so...
What's really crazy is how you can actually remember that
As a dollar store manager we have to charge $1.75 and the thefts (shrinkage) is a daily constant. Just had one 30 mins ago.
5 Below doesn’t open stores in certain areas for a reason.
Wage increases will end the restaurants and theft and lack of work force will end retail
What is the problem with wage increases? Minimum wage has not be changed since July 24, 2009. So it is ok for inflation to do its thing but wage increase is a NO NO?
Same reason that McDonald’s had to get rid of the $1.00 value menu many years ago
I went into a 99 cent store with my daughter to buy school supplies and saw someone shoplifting baskets of items. We were shocked at how brazen thieves have become.
Because the liberal judges are letting them get by with it.
And a lot of judges are in office because of financial back from people that hate America.
Like George Soros and his Knotzeeeee buddy Klaus Schwab.
Siris is on video from an old interview saying he hated America snd wants to bring us down.
Schwab is on video saying he has placed people in politics all over the world.
A one time Woolworths and Newberrys were 5 and 10 cent stores. Ive researched, the inflation since 1860 is 3700 PERcent. The dollars has lost its value by 37 times
How much of inflation is from stealing. Theses companies are losing their ass and are passing it on to consumers. FJB
How is stealing the DEMS fault? Yeah you might say about the laws but the laws are still there. If they get caught they will have to pay a fine now instead of a felony. You do know when it was a felony they were people still stealing. No LAW will make people stop from stealing in stores.
These stores were able to survive other instances of inflation. I suspect the mention of inflation is to cover the fact that these stores were being robbed into bankruptcy. Their small margins can not absorb rampant theft.
High lease too
Inflation probably contributes to higher thefts, but inflation is the primary problem they are facing, customers can't find a good deal at their stores ant longer, they go elsewhere, and their rents increase, and with the recession we have been in for the last 2-3 years, people are just spending less.
I live right across the street from one. Gonna miss ours. Last couple years, came through solid .
I was there this morning, and the employees there told me they would close in June, and meanwhile, they are still stocking up the supplies that most people and employees brought.
I haven't seen a 99 cent store in a looooong time.
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UK here.. we had Pound land.. everything was £1. it was like that i think till about 2010 ish!! they have shut and the other shop Pound Stretcher was say 80% £1 items and then other things more but, still cheaper than anywhere else. then the £1 stuff went and things like out of date crisps and cereal, they started asking for nearly as much as they are new.. deffo more than say ASDA's own brand or Tesco. dunno what you have in America..
This affects our seniors and single moms out here trying to keep up with this inflation! These stores are staples in the communities.
Dollar stores are going out of business as well.
Thank you PBD for squaring up Adam about a dollar store only having $200 in the register. They’re taking in Billion$. Dollar 💵 at a time….
Yes but in the one I frequently went to it was mostly credit cards and EBT so I'm not sure how much cash they had on hand. They actually discouraged cash because they were robbed , often. Very sad. I loved that store
Ebt
@@jeansullivan3869 gotcha 👍🏽 that makes sense
@@Mike-jf5ip o yeah that part lol. You’re right 👍🏽
In the Netherlands a similar shop went bankrupt. An irony ia that a cheapest or one of cheapest shops cannot attract enough customers.
Damn, I never got the opportunity to visit one. Always wondered what kind of products they had.
This is all intentional!
Yea of course it is the politicians intentionally destroying our economy and country open borders = illegal drugs and more ppl and more housing being built daily= inflation and you got senators on 245k a year salary money laundering retiring almost billionaires while steady raising taxes for ordinary ppl
Yes it is
Crazy😑
This will only get worse no matter who is in office. We are at the point of no return on Inflation.
It’s because those at the top won’t bring prices down despite all the supply chain issue already being solved. What we need is to fund small business. If we increase the competition of big business it will force big businesses to reduce the price to avoid losing market share. The solution is competition.
@@honestfriend767 the federal reserve causes inflation, not private businesses.
The ship is sinking and folks are fighting over first class seats...LMAO
Canadian here from the North. KFC in the 90s use to offer toonie tuesday. $2 for 2 piece chicken and fries. They had to rebrand a decade ago because of inflation. Now that Tuesday special is now $4.50 plus tax
My family was in 62nd and Vermont in south central Los Angeles and we had to close sell after covid. Many issues. I would work everyday.Go buy produce in downtown Los Angeles at 3 in the morning.Then go to Jethro to purchase sodas.Then go to j c sales to purchase single items that I would be able to sell for 1.25. 1.50 or 1.00 At one point before covid I had two employees and I was able to pay them but never made any real profit.
This is why we can't have nice things!
Those stores were hideous and always looked like they had the cheapest most toxic made in sweatshop factory products and some things were more expensive than big lots..
His dad was a cashier for 15 year!!
That's crazy. 15 years as a cashier
That’s a shame.
Do not despise your small beginnings
@@peterlona7835exactly. Better than robbing the store..
And he was the Republican in the family...smh
@@EricJGonzalez what does that have to do with anything?
They haven’t been called the .99 only for a very long time.
It's a store title.
@OutWestRedDirt no it isn't. They are called "The 99" and changed their name a long time ago
Dollar stores have always been my go to for party favors decorations and holidays. making little gift bags for kids class room etc. i know that where a lot of other moms i know go to for same things. plus if you want cheap containers for like organize and craft projects too
I'm from the 818 also. Great to see all you've done. Take over 99cent stores help the poor and honor your father and the years he invested. It'll be a great blessing to millions.
I saw a store here to close in a few days in Houston
They close in June per employee
I remember the 5 and dime store turned into the 88cent store.
Pat telling this great story about his father and a woman that knew his father personally is heart warming. Especially the part where he used that to ripp her off and sell her on MLM 🤣
I live by the 99 cent store next to LACMA and the amount of crime at that store since the pandemic has been insane…not surprised they went out of business due to theft.
F.. liberalism
But Joe says the economy is doing great!
In the 1930's they were called five and dimes. They could bring back the same, just dollars instead of cents.
The back of the delivery trucks of the 99 Cent Stores trailers have a quote "driver only carries 99 cents"
My mother loved the .99 cent store. When my kids were little, she would take them to the store and they could buy whaterever they wanted. The .99 cent store had 2 locations dierctly across ffom either 2 stores on La Tijera blvd just north of the 405. My mom passed in 2013 and I know her heart is broken over this.
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