Talk:Variety store/Archives/2012

Inventory
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)

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)

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).

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

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)

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

Situation in Germany
Never heard of ToBis before. Looks to me like a local expression. As german native speaker I would recommend "1-Euro-Laden" (1-Euro-Store), Billigladen (Cheap-Store) or 1-Euro-Discount.

91.17.139.248 (talk) 15:35, 18 October 2010 (UTC)