[stonemetal]

Wow, is it the fact checking department's day off? I mean they actually interviewed the president of Dollar General and yet they haven't figured out the fact that Dollar General is not a dollar store. Guess what Family Dollar is not a Dollar Store either.

[Goladus]

I'm not sure there are any true "dollar stores" any more in the sense that "Everything is one dollar." However the stores evolved from the original gimmick are still called dollar stores even if the strict definition no longer applies.

[noahc]

I'm not sure of the name but there is a true dollar store. I think it is called, "The Dollar Tree" and everything in them is a dollar. You find them throughout malls in the midwest.

[stonemetal]

Dollar Tree the place the author visits in the article is a actual everything is a buck store.

[jbermudes]

The "99 cent only" stores are still true to their word (nothing is over a dollar), but they recently had to raise their prices to 99.99 cents, heh.

[athom]

I remember when you'd still hear people refer to dime stores, though I'm pretty sure the term was obsolete well before my time.

[kevinpet]

There's a "five and ten" store in Palo Alto, but it's $5 and $10.

[noahc]

I'm not sure what part of the country you are from, but I think this is a regional difference. Here in the midwest it is common to say, "I"m headed to the dollar store" and mean either Family Dollar or Dollar General.

[stonemetal]

Must be, around here(South Texas) dollar store implies a place where things cost a dollar.

[matdwyer]

In Canada Dollarama is the market leader, and they've recently added $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 items.

I honestly think you could grocery shop there - they have things like pasta sauce which is made specifically for them (same kind I buy in the grocery store, but at dollarama it has the label printed with dollarama price tag). There are tons of fantastic buys and I go there all the time, despite probably not needing to. I buy a ton of office stuff there too (even DVD sleeves, which I run through like you wouldn't imagine).

They even have iPhone cases, chargers, USB cables, etc. I don't know what I'd do without them...