by Craig Hemke
Sprott Money
You’ve seen these places, right? They’re all over the U.S. south and other sparsely-populated spots. They’ve recently moved into urban areas, too. Everything is priced at $1.00…or at least it used to be.
This article is not meant to criticize these businesses. For a growing percentage of the U.S. population, companies like Dollar Tree and Dollar General provide a much-needed service: they offer inexpensive items for sale at convenient locations. Since the beginning, the premise was that everything in the store was priced at $1.00 with very few exceptions.
However, in the current stagflationary recession, even these companies have been forced to bow to the inflation pressure brought about by years of central bank cash creation and profligate political spending. As such, let’s check some current prices.