{"id":1507,"date":"2009-07-24T20:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T04:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2009-07-24T20:39:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T04:39:40","slug":"not-so-dollar-stores-buck-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/not-so-dollar-stores-buck-or-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Not So Dollar Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I went into a mall in the Richmond area and the people I was with happened to have needed to go to the restroom.  As I waited, I noticed that there was this dollar store called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Buck or Two\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  From first glance, I just assumed it was like any other dollar store except with this one nothing was over $2.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/buckortwo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They happen to have a lot of its items displayed outside of the store so passer buyers can get a glimpse at the products that they sell.  What caught my attention were the prices as it looked like so many items were well over $1 or $2.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/buckortworack.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For example, there was this inflatable baby pool that was marked as $9 as you can see here:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/buckortwoitem.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As well, there were a lot of other things such as balloons that cost almost $15.  So the prices definitely caught my attention, but in a different way than intended I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m almost inclined to say that seeing items like that would discourage one from shopping at a place like this as the uniqueness is suppose to be the price and this in a sense makes it a regular store.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe in this case since it was a summer item they felt that more people would buy it regardless of the price as there would be more demand.  I always perceived a dollar store type of place as a quick grab and go for small items though and not a place where you would want to contemplate too much if you could get a better deal elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I went into a mall in the Richmond area and the people I was with happened to have needed to go to the restroom. As I waited, I noticed that there was this dollar store called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Buck or Two\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. From first glance, I just assumed it was like any other dollar store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2044,5953,1075,825,2045],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-buck-or-two","tag-business","tag-cheap-items","tag-dollar-store","tag-higher-prices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/above-vancouver-eye-of-wind.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-oj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}