Would you like to know some actual real examples of the shittiest of Dollar General , even before I read this article?
Do not buy anything, literally*anything* from Dollar General without checking the expiration date.
In a two week period, I pulled $800 worth of expired product off the shelves, and personally crossed out all the barcodes and placed giant Xs on the packaging to prevent my coworkers or Store manager from âaccidentallyâ putting them back on the shelf.
The store manager*literally* told me âhey stop pulling stuff from the shelf, Iâm in trouble with the DM for having this much $$$ in damagesâ
So I looked at him and said âIf I find expired product, I am pulling it. If you donât want that to happen you need to actually rotate things.â
To which he blustered a bit and walked away, waving his hands.
Did you know that Baby products, such a formula, medicine, etc, all have to get pulled from the shelves a full month before their expiration date, to ensure that anyone buying it has time to use it all before it expires to avoid poisoning infants?
The second Dollar General I worked at (transferred with a move) had Baby formula and medicine on the shelves that had expired â
Two. Fucking. Years. Previously.
Two YEARS. Two years ago! And theyâre required by state law (in pa at least when I worked retail up there) to be pulled one month BEFORE it expires, and these fuckers were trying to sell baby products that expired 24 months ago.
And letâs not forget to mention they resold Returned Product which is very much illegal in the United States ! This includes everything from FOOD to goddamn fucking medicine. They slapped a 25% off sticker on the product and stuck it on the clearance rack so people would just assume it was on clearance instead of literal food or medicine that could have been tampered with.
Vendors such as Pepsi and Tastykake regularly âforgotâ to rotate their displays because they knew no one at the store would notice or care that their products were expired two months ago.
I regularly pulled an entire displays worth of Pepsi and Tastykake products off the shelves because they were expired and put them in the back room to be collected in the proper âvendor returnâs areaâŠ. Only to come in the next day and see the vendors had deliberately put them back on the shelves, because they make commission and they donât want to take the hit of losing so many $ in sales.
So, thatâs when the Sharpie made itâs first appearance. A big old X across every single Pepsi bottle cap and across the biggest logo , and a giant X across every single individually wrapped Tastykake package.
They stopped putting expired product *back* on the sales floor after thatâ didnât stop them from trying to sneak in new expired crap though, because literally no one else at the entire store would ever, ever check dates, let alone pull product from the sales floor.
Dollar General is literally the shittiest possible job you can have. You are part of a staff of like. 5 employees total if youâre lucky and if one person misses a shift youâre there from open to close. You can be promoted to a key holder but youâre only making $2 over minimum wage of $7.25 and youâre not getting any benefits or sick days or literally anything to make up for the unparalleled stress that working their full time will give you when you have to pull 12 hour shifts., While people scream and throw shit at you across the registers.
If you currently work at a Dollar General and any of this sounds familiar, first of all next time someone says keep the receipt, use it to take the survey and exclaim about how much expired shit is in the store without giving it away that itâs an employee complaining, take a LOT of pictures and find a job somewhere else that actually pays you and gives you benefits for your work. If you work at Dollar General doing register and stocking and closing/opening manager duties congrats, you can go to literally any other retail job and have 90% less stress and 50%+ more pay.
If youâre able to find a job somewhere else while youâre still employed at DG feel free to gather all the expired shit in the store in one huge pile and take a picture of it piled up with details of the expired dates and crap and send it directly to corporate or your District Manager before walking out the door on your last day :)
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