DG is a tough business right now. You know how your insurance bills are going up so rapidly? Well DG has thousands of stores with their insurance bills going up rapidly. You know how so many are agitating for $20+/hr wages for low-end store clerks and folks who stock the shelves? Well, DG has tens of thousands of them. And you know how people are complaining bitterly about price increases at their local stores? Well, due to all the above factors, DG has to raise prices, and people don't like that. Not only that, but the average DG consumer is very price sensitive (due to necessity), and will either shop elsewhere or do without. Perhaps the only bright spot is Family Dollar going down the tubes and closing lots of locations, so maybe for some period there will be less competition in the space.

I don't know how to value something like that. So I don't buy any of it.

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