Dollar Tree Customers Protest New Raised Prices on Social Media
'The worst time' for price increases
you know it's inflation when dollar tree is $1.25 tree...https://t.co/wxH6kGWr0z
— Ashwani🌱Garg 🇺🇸 ☯禅☸️ 🌏☮️🇮🇳 (@agargmd) January 14, 2022
"I wish they wouldn't have done that because most of their shoppers are people who are not getting paid a lot of money," Leniza Costa, a beauty influencer and frequent customer from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, told CNN. "This is the worst time to increase the price, when everything else is so much."
prevnext'Pure greed'
Dollar tree stuff is now 1.25 the world is officially over
— Britneyy (@_britneytaylorr) January 16, 2022
"Never forget they hit record profits this year & only pay their impoverished employees an average of $12/hr," tweeted one person. "This was a decision of pure greed."
prevnext'No justification'
In my local Dollar Tree & an employee said their prices will be $1.25 on Monday pic.twitter.com/QJF2LznTjG
— IG: kaneceskreations (@kanecekreations) January 15, 2022
"Paying .$25 more for the same cheap stuff. While the CEO makes 10mm in profits," another person reacted to the increase. "No justification other than greed and where is Dollar Tree.. Low income areas. Hurting those who have $ issues ready. Not using it to raise employee salaries. Greed Greed Greed."
prevnextSome shoppers want to boycott
Something about that $1.25 got me wanting to boycott Dollar Tree....🥴😫
— Derek Alexander (@Derekalexander_) January 17, 2022
"How much does the dollar tree CEO make? How much does the rest of the executive staff make?Gotta pay for those luxury vacation homes somehow..." added somebody else.
prevnext'Disgusted'
Went to what I thought was Dollar Tree…they really raised them prices to $1.25! Eye am disgusted.
This was me at the register watching the total surpass what I calculated in my head. pic.twitter.com/fb1k6xOKTE
— Vaccine Waters (@ShannonNtheCity) January 15, 2022
"25% price inflation overnight for those already at the bottom of the economic ladder, suffering the most from the problems of [COVID], least able to work remotely," tweeted somebody else.
prevnext'Outrageous'
Dollar tree being 1.25 doesn’t sit right with my spirit
— Laur (@laurp24) January 15, 2022
"For me, it's not about the .25 price increase..it is about the fact that the CEO makes over $10 million per year!" commented one shopper. "It's outrageous..they did not have to increase the prices. And BTW, the size of the items shunk as well, so you were screwed over twice."
prevnext'Not going back'
screaming crying throwing up things at dollar tree are actually $1.25
— MERry christmas🎄✨ (@minniefarrar) January 11, 2022
"Walked into Dollar Tree other day and everything was $1.25 ...put that shit down and walked out cuz wtf?" added another person. "So now I call it Dollar25 Tree and I'm not going back there."
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