>>10940234Dollar Tree has already switched to 1.25 and the offerings there for pretty much everything are trash. Their days are numbered for sure.
Five Below though, they're experimenting with products and prices but poised to be the next Dollar Tree thanks to inflation. I'm sure they'll be fine, though product quality is gonna steadily drop until the stuff we buy there in 5 years is the quality of Dollar Tree 20 years ago.
When companies blame Covid what they're really blaming is unchecked capitalist greed driving inflation. Everyone raised prices during the pandemic because they could and never dropped them again. Without any regulation to prevent it, it's only going to get worse. Pretty soon the only B&M stores in the USA will be Wal-marts and everything else will be Amazon.
