Anybody been looking at the stock ticker on them lately? I told you so

Amazon has got way more future potential and will put the squeeze on Dollar General eventually I think.

Amazon is diversified(e-commerce, logistics, cloud computing, streaming services, Ai etc), Dollar General is effectively a 1 trick pony(physical retail in low-mid income areas).

Amazon is doing good too. DG is filling the gaps that Amazon cannot fill. It wouldnt surprise me if both companies didnt join forces and knock off Walmart.

I can’t ride my 4 wheeler to Amazon and get a bag of Fritos and a Sunkist in the next 5 minutes.

VSTO has been the savior of my portfolio.

I took your advice and its paid off so far.

A week ago, my ex wife ordered a new power cord for my daughters computer on Amazon Prime. I asked my daughter about it yesterday and she said her mom got notice that it wouldn't be here until May 6th. That won't work because she needs it for school. In less than 2 minutes I ordered one on Ebay (new in the box) and it will be here Monday. It was also $4 cheaper. I rarely order off Amazon because once I price check I usually find it cheaper , elsewhere.

Yep, amazon is "prioritizing" orders of "essential" items.....that means even if you have PAID FOR EXPEDITED SHIPPING (prime membership), they're not honoring it. Hell, this should be their time to shine, even more so than normal, since folks can't/don't want to go out in public. Instead, they're shooting themselves in the foot.

Amazon got blitzed virtually overnight on "I need my package shipped NOW!" and they couldn't do it, thus the prioritization and attempt to hire new workers for distribution. But they couldn't keep up and still can't, and never will. There's too many of us wanting our Prime schitt on the porch NOW no matter if it's a bathmat or kimchi or "essential" stuff. Our nation of immediacy and Amazon's promises to deliver couldn't mesh.


Also, no one at Amazon smiles and says, "Hey baby, how you doin' today?" when I check out.

This little experiment we are going thru is going to open up a lot of people way of thinking about shopping. Ive been ordering 75% of my groceries, and almost all my household goods online for a couple of years now. Now that many others have been semi forced into doing it also I think it will help to push that online trend further.

if Amazon bought out DG and cleaned them up some it would put a hurting on wally world for sure. I try not to buy much from DG other than some food items, or unless its all that's around to shop at. Their china stuff seems to be one step lower in quality than wally worlds china stuff.

DG is selling a lot of TP, and everything else.

DG gobbling up a bunch of land too. They took a play out of McDonald’s play book

Between Lake View and Bessemer, there are 4 DGs, and none are more than 4 miles apart

In a lot of the rural places they were welcomed and needed.
Jefferson county has put a big hell no on a few off them being proposed built that I know of. Im glad of it. I get their business model of cutting off people before they get to a larger store but we don't need one on every corner 4 miles apart.

Doesn't DG use satellite imagery to count rooftops to determine where to locate Dollar General stores?

Would be a good idea if they did.

Within 10 miles of our home I know of at least five DG stores.

They have a GIS based algorithm that shows them where to put stores based on population data, traffic, distance to Walmart is a big part of it, and some other factors.

they map out areas. They find a large population. Locate the nearest wal mart grocery store whatever, and try to place DG between that population and the other store and cut them off by convenience.

Local company here in florence alabama is building me a metal garage. Oakland metal. The contractor putting mine up told me that had contract for 120 MORE dollars generals here in southeast. So i guess they doing pretty good. Looking for help on every dollar general door around here . Have one that sells produce an lot stuff walmart sells. They are always packed.

I was at a DG the other day. Clerk called down some folks wanting to talk to me in the checkout line. Told us to practice social distancing.
I said “Hey, mo-fo. I can’t help it that I’m charismatic and people want to talk to me. Ring that chocolate rabbit up and mind your own damn business,”
One of the guys trying to talk to me had a mask on. I don’t even know who it was.
Chit gets weird like that sometimes in G’ville.