Dollar stores do more than sell "cheap crap to poor people." I can't speak for Family Dollar but I've noticed an exponential increase in the number of customers at the local Dollar General store. Most of them aren't buying cheap crap, but are buying cheaper groceries, just to survive in this recession. (I must tell you at this point, that I am a Dollar General stockholder). And most of them aren't poor, but middle-class-income people who've fallen on hard times.
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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Dollar stores do more than sell "cheap crap to poor people." I can't speak for Family Dollar but I've noticed an exponential increase in the number of customers at the local Dollar General store. Most of them aren't buying cheap crap, but are buying cheaper groceries, just to survive in this recession. (I must tell you at this point, that I am a Dollar General stockholder). And most of them aren't poor, but middle-class-income people who've fallen on hard times.
How did that boycott thing work out for you guys?
If the same groceries are sold there as in a "traditional " chain store then what is the harm in saving money, recession or not?
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