5 and 10
The mizzus asked me the other day When Was It the 5 and dime stores became Dollar Stores? Now, I don’t know about you old codgers, but I barely remember Yesterday, much less the answer to some trick history question. Ma, I said, my memory is a highway of cerebral roadkill. No point turning the truck around – what’s back there is dead as a doornail – so I’m just gonna keep driving until I figure out where exactly I’m headed….
But it got me wondering: when DID all these dollar stores take over the world? I remember the Ben Franklins and Kresges — all that cheap junk made in Japan. They got eaten up by the K-Marts and Targets – all that cheap junk made in Taiwan. Which got eaten up by Wal-Mart – all that cheap junk make in China.
We don’t have Dollar Stores down at the South End. We got the Mom and Pop One Stop Shops where the only thing close to being under a buck is a potato or a newspaper or all their free gossip. Could be they’re the Vanguard of the next big paradigm shift in Retail Marketing: the 5 and 10 Dollar Store. Once again Tyee Store is leading the charge. Better be, cause you sure won’t have enough cash.
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