99 Cent Stores Actually Charge One Dollar

A couple of years ago, they had a bit of media coverage when they announced that thay were being forced by inflation to raise their prices.

The final announcement was more of a gimmick for the publicity in that they raised .99 to .9999.

Most people don’t even bend over to pick up dropped nickles, or dimes, and especially pennies. So, it might not hurt them, but I got pissed on pricipal when I went in and bought 10 items and was charged $10 instead of $9.99

If you think that’s bad you should’ve seen the stuff businesses were doing with prices when European countries made the change from their individual currencies to just the Euro. A conversion rate was to be applied, and when it was, it was always rounded up. Some company’s recalculated prices altogether, always upping the price. Good thing about living in a free country is if you don’t like a place, you don’t buy there, to do otherwise just demonstrates that you’re a whiner.

You’re not serious. The penny should have been discontinued decades ago. I refuse to accept them. If the store doesn’t have a penny jar I leave them on the counter. No stupid pennies to deal with. Total loss: a couple of bucks a year.

I will never shop there again.

Full confession – I have never seen one of the “99cent Stores” specified in the article, so stating “again” above is technically incorrect.

But, I will never go into one, even if the opportunity arises.

That’s like the “1 Hour Drycleaning” stores scam.
I would ask for my penny back as it just makes cents.

I worked for the 99 cent store’s IT department for 3 days in 2008. My experience is that this firm is very cost conscience, read cheap, that’s why I had such a short stay. I found higher pay within the first week I worked for them.

I shop at 99 Cents Only Store about once a week. Mainly because they are 2 blocks from my home, but they DO have some genuine deals. Just watch out for the things like what looks like a great deal on Reynolds Wrap, when in fact the roll is so puny that it’s cheaper at the supermarket.

On the other hand, 3 hearts of Romaine lettuce is $2-3.50 in the supers, lately, Danish Creamery brand butter 1/2 pound for a dollar, lots of cleaning supplies, hair conditioner, bell peppers, Kraft salad dressings, milk, eggs, are all good deals there. But, I heard recently that their average markup is higher than Walmart’s, so some things have to be a rip.

In the back of my mind, I seem to be aware of the 99 cents vs $1 thing. When they first opened, everything was exactly 99 cents. No 2 for 99 or 3 for 99. They basically didn’t need a fancy cash register. The clerk simply counted items. Then they went to selling things for less than 99 cents, which kind of blew the concept right there, but it permitted them to sell a greater variety of stuff. The current pricing scheme is a bit sleazy, but it’s so petty that its not a deal breaker.

Now, I WOULD support a constitutional amendment to disallow gas stations from pricing in fractional cents. I once saw gas priced at whatever and 7/10! Just so they could be cheaper than the station across the street. Shesh!

It’s the name of the place, like “one hour cleaners”. Motel 6 was originally named that because they CHARGED SIX BUCKS for a nights sleep…..but, when the prices went up, name stayed the same (now they charge $40-80 bucks a night, depending on location).
Less coffee, Mark

Jim – did they only *pay* 99 cents too?

=)

I understand your concern but imagine this more apparent in just about everything that is marketed out there and that penny suddenly becomes insignificant.

Marketing lies, A LOT. I’m sure you’ve seen those commercials for medicine on TV. This is awesome, take it…just take note you’ll die.

‘taint worth the time or breath to think about it!!

I am a big spender I only go into dollar stores.

I’ve never seen a 99 cent store. Most are dollar stores. Or 100 yen stores. or whatever.

Actually, 100 yen stores in Japan are pretty cool. Yes, you can get sushi at a 100 yen store. And no, I did not get food poisoning. lol

What’s really annoying is going into a 99 cent store or a dollar store and paying $1.07. Damn taxes!

In Milwaukee, WI, there’d be a 5.6% tax added, so the charge would be more than 99-cents. Big woop.

Think of it this way: you won’t have to (in California) have too much change rattling around in your pocket. One golden dollar coin per item (or an old-fashioned greenback, but who uses those nowadays?).

We have a perfectly honest dollar store. Everything is priced in dollars… $7… $5… $18….

If you visited the local Dollar stores here you’d probably explode on the spot. Here in Israel there are so called “Dollar stores” but the prices are in Shekels and they use an exchange rate of five Shekels to a Dollar. This was about right six or seven years ago, but now it’s 3.7 shekels to a dollar so a Dollar store item costs about 1.35 Dollars.
To top it all off they introduced $2 and $3 items, again with the bogus exchange rate, so they pretty much threw the entire concept out the window.

Its a god damn penny. Didn’t anyone ever tell you life is not fair? Get over it.

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and theose .99 cent items are made with 100% toxic waste, from china!
hhhmmmm cant get anymore american than that1

oh and all of you who dont want those pennies, i’LL TAKE THEM!!
just sent them to me care of this station.

Soupy Sales

David Gold, the Chairman and founder of the store, is as big a lib/leftist as they come. So when you see you are getting ripped off, let it be known it’s by a company that embraces far left ideas and supports the Democrat Party.

Right on George- #31

This business of having all these nobodies posting makes the whole premise of the **DVORAK** UNCENSORED model a lie. It makes your identity a lie. It makes your brand a lie. That’s just a big god damn lie. It REALLY takes the magic out of the **DVORAK** name. And once the magic is gone then you realize that you probably could get the same items at Walt Mossberg or Howard Stern for even less hypocrisy.

I fixed the logo to match the contents of this “Dvorak” blog,

# 32, Michael,

The urge to say something anti-semitic for the sake of trolling is so alluring…

When I was your age, I didn’t shop at 99cent stores – I lived. So, move out of your parent’s basements, get your own apartments. And grow the hell up!

I fixed the logo to match the contents of this “Dvorak” blog,

I feel Marc is right on the money! BTW what ever happened to your new phone and your squirrel? Marc is clearly the best at posting original thoughts, and the only poster willing to post articles found on this site already!

Everyone know its a buck. All the dollar store names were taken.

Not only are they retaining the cent, they are avoiding the costs associated with handling all those pennies. I call double-dipping: class action, anyone?

This isn’t the only deceit in advertising, I’ve noticed. Our local Fox Tv affiliate has taken to reporting my county’s weather, by dividing it in two. A northern and southern half. But they have yet to report any storm warnings that apply to only one and not both. And it’s the only county in my state they’ve divided. My theory is that they didn’t like it being listed almost first, in the list of counties. Causing us to “tune out”, the second it appears. So by making it into a “Northern” and “Southern” half, it appears well after most of the other counties get mentioned.

Thus, one is forced to watch the damn weather warning marquee longer than necessary. It’s no more populous or larger a county as any of the others. So I can see no other reason to chop it in two. And which half gets the City (in the middle)? I think they forgot about that. They basically “99 cent”d my county, as some lame anti-channel surfing strategy. So much for news reporting integrity. It’s always the damn “bottom line” they worry about.