{"id":5181,"date":"2013-11-22T22:13:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T06:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2013-11-23T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T13:14:08","slug":"not-so-dollar-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/not-so-dollar-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Not So Dollar Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This felt kind of silly today as I went to a store called \u201cBuck or Two\u201d as I had to buy an HDMI cable in a time sensitive manner.  Basically this is like a dollar store where you would expect everything to be around that price.  However, so much of the inventory was well over $5 and even this cable itself was over $8.  This didn&#8217;t really seem like a dollar store at all and that the name is simply a gimmick.<\/p>\n<p>In the end I did end up buying the item there as most of the other stores were asking for over $25 for pretty much the same item.  Makes me wonder if this isn&#8217;t considered a little misleading. A the same time I guess it&#8217;s not like a company that labels themselves as \u201cthe best\u201d or \u201cthe biggest\u201d in its name where even if it isn&#8217;t true it wouldn&#8217;t really get into any kind of trouble for it.  Come to think of it for \u201cDollar Stores\u201d I think most of them I see around here have all its items starting at $2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This felt kind of silly today as I went to a store called \u201cBuck or Two\u201d as I had to buy an HDMI cable in a time sensitive manner. Basically this is like a dollar store where you would expect everything to be around that price. However, so much of the inventory was well over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11567,"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":[4640,825,4639,123],"class_list":["post-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-image","tag-dollar-store","tag-more-than-a-dollar","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turnout.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1lz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181","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=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}