dollar store

Type: Company

As of November 2026, dollar store has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Sword and Scale (Dec 2025).

A variety store is a retail store that sells general merchandise, such as apparel, auto parts, dry goods, toys, hardware, furniture, and a selection of groceries. It usually sells them at discounted prices, sometimes at one or several fixed price points, such as one dollar, or historically, five and ten cents. Variety stores, as a category, are different from general merchandise superstores, hypermarkets, warehouse clubs, grocery stores, cloth shop, slop shop or department stores.