What Can You Buy For A Buck? Everything!

There's a place where Laundry Bright detergent and Black Orchid Hair Food run free. A place where egg beaters, Goya beans, plastic swords and Jackie's Instant Rat Traps all peacefully coexist. A place where your pocket change can buy you imported cookies or some Super Jumbo Chalk Sticks. It is a bargain buyer's bonanza where everything is a buck. Welcome to the place known as the Dollar Store.

Known by some as Dollar World, Family Dollar, Everything A Dollar, Nothing Over $1, Dollar Giant, etc., the "Dollar Store" is the last oasis in a world flooded with over-priced crap.

A modern equivalent of the five-and-dime, the dollar store is an American phenomenon. With stores continually popping up nationwide, anyone can mosey on down to the nearest strip mall, swagger into the Dollar Express and purchase a genuine oil painting for only one hundred shiny pennies or four quarters or two quarters, four dimes and two nickels or...

Based in Matthews, North Carolina, Family Dollar has more than 3,000 stores. The Philadelphia-based Dollar Express has more than 100 stores on the East Coast. And Dollar General, which is the nation's largest chain of "extreme value" stores can claim 3,500 stores and plans to open about 400 more this year.

Everyone likes to find a bargain. And at the dollar store everything is on sale, all day, everyday. Forget about Wal-mart and Kmart. Those places are for suckers. With their numbered aisles and blue-light specials, they lure their customers into a false shoppers' paradise. Not only can you find Fame Salad Dressing and Foco Coconut Juice, but the dollar store has your brand names as well: Ivory, Listerine, Ronzoni, Johnson & Johnson, Vaseline, even Little Debbie is waiting for you.

Some may wonder where all of these tweezer sets and bamboo skewers and cookie sheets come from...well, closeouts, overruns and manufacturers' promotions are major sources. Movie tie-ins are also a sure bet. So if you are still in the market for Jar Jar Binks paraphernalia make sure to meander your way to the closest Family Dollar.

There are a million and one trinkets and baubles to be had at the Dollar General. So don't forget your change, because you never know when you are going to come across those Baby King Spill-Proof Cups, toilet brushes, five-piece alloy steel drill sets, suction hooks, colanders, shoe bags, foam rollers, shower curtains or Godzilla Valentines that you have been dying to get your hands on.

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