Actually the dollar store is superior to any other store I know of. It's clothes are cheaper than GW, it's canned food and dry food is reasonable to cheap The one by my house has solar diveway lights for a $1 which is ubber cheap. These are great and you can use them indoors if you lose power, which we did for three days last year in the great ice storm of Seattle in 2011. Candles and cleaning material. Dried fruit and nuts which cost a fortune elsewhere. Beef Jerky of different types, batteries, reading glasses which the other criminals charge 20 bucks for, and of course lots of soap, shampoo, bandaids, toothbrushes, and party supplies for whatever can't be beat.

Sorry but compared to every other store out there, The Dollar Store Rocks. Of course I wouldn't recommend so of the piles of cheap candy and other junk food.

Sure it's a possible Zombie Center, but not nearly as much as Walmart, and even Walmart is nothing compared to the shopping malls. Sheeze! Now we are talking total plastic living there.

So there you have it. Like everything you have to be prepared. I never leave home without my Walthers and Benchmade. So you see, cheap is only when and where it doesn't really count. Otherwise I buy the best I can afford.