Talk:Variety store

Is it really necessary to include a list of things that might be bought at a dollar store? Surely the list could be continued pretty much indefinitely?

David Clayworth 29 July 2003

Seconded (Or "no" and "yes", respectively). -- Arteitle 05:42, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I agree that the list is not very interesting. I, personally skipped that section. But I think it has a place here. If this was a text book, we certainly should eliminate the list, but this is an encyclopedia, and an encyclopedia has lists of all sorts of obscue things. It is useful because looking down the list gives the reader an indication of the type of products sold in this type of store. If this list was the same as the list for departments stores, or discount stores, I would agree that it just takes up space, but it is not the same. As for the list growing very long, it could, and if it did, it would be of little use. But as it is now, I think the author has done a very good job of describing the categories of products available in a typical Dollar store.

mydogategodshat 14:38, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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Currently, many of the Spanish dollar stores are owned by Chinese immigrants. They name their shops as "MegaAsia", "Hong Kong Bazar", "SuperChina" and so on. Very few stores remain named "todo a 100".

--Soldadito de Plomo 18:33, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Exclusively from China?

There is absolutely no way that products from China make up 100% of dollar store stock. The dollar stores I use has stuff from China, Africa, Haiti, Singapore, France, and yes, stuff made here in the United States as well. Pacific Coast Highway ^{(blah • typa-typa)} 23:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I've modified that; there are some dollar stores that do have nothing but Chinese stuff. In fact, where I live, there's a dollar store supplier (wholesaler) who basically gets containers from China and resells it to retailers. Every single item is from the ROC. I realize not all dollar stores are like this. ==ILike2BeAnonymous 05:55, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Same deal here. As an avid dollar store customer, I've bought stuff made in China, Chinese Taipei (aka Taiwan), Mexico, Japan, Indonesia, and of course the good old US of A. Mannyram24 03:16, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Dollar stores in Canada

Canada is a vey big place indeed, but I've never ever heard of dollar stores being called Toonie stores. Some Canadian douches, need to constantly input and ply how Canada is different to the U.S and comes up with the stupidest things. In Ontario they're called DOLLAR STORES. Most of Canada has always been in step with the northern United states. maybe they're called toonie stores in the Yukon, who knows. but they are usually refered to as dollar stores

Big rewrite & merge

Price-point retailing is a popular, old, international phenomenon; there are countless variations across currency and inflation changes. As such, I've renamed dollar store to variety store, merged a bunch of articles here (e.g. five and dime and 100-yen store), and rewritten most of it. Categorized relevant articles under Category:Variety stores. Also factored out Dollar store (Cuba). —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-11-23 00:24Z

Notability

The concept of dollar store is notable enough for an article, so I made dollar store an article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.247.222.255 (talk • contribs) 17:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC).

Five and dime

Five and dime redirects to this entry, and five and dimes are/were definitely *not* dollar stores.

UK stores

"Modern names include:

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Pound shop, £2 shop, 50p shop, etc. in the United Kingdom"

Do the highlighted examples actually exist? In the UK I regularly see pound shops, and I occasionally see 99p shops. I can't say I've ever come across a "£2 shop" or a "50p shop".

I've also removed the statement that Poundland is also called Euroland, as I can find no evidence that the chain uses this name (it certainly doesn't trade under this name in the UK, which of course uses the Pound as its currency, not the Euro). 217.155.20.163 20:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

convenience stores / gasoline

"in the United States ... variety stores, unlike convenience stores, do not sell gasoline ..." -- This says that convenience stores do sell gasoline. AFAIK, some do, some don't. Therefore, removing this. Please source or re-phrase before restoring. -- Writtenonsand (talk) 10:22, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

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"Of these, only Duckwall-ALCO", however Duckwall-ALCO is not listed Doug Nelson (talk) 05:50, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

out of print books

"Variety store products include cooking supplies, small tools, personal hygiene supplies, kitchen supplies, organizational supplies, small office supplies, holiday decorations, electronics supplies, gardening supplies, home decor novelties, toys, pet supplies, out of print books, DVDs and VHS tapes, food products and automotive supplies."

This statement is not right. "Out of print" books refers to books which are no longer available from the publisher, because they have sold them all. Variety stores sell cheap books which are often surplus leftovers of failed best-sellers where the publishers have printed too many. This is not really the same thing as "out of print".Eregli bob (talk) 15:09, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

"In popular culture" needs to go

If anything in this section is actually notable, place it in the article somewhere else.