It marks the end of an era. Just like penny candy and the nickel and dime stores, the Dollar Tree is now raising its prices to $1.25. I don't have much to say about this, except for the fact that I've been dreading this moment for quite some time. I shop at dollar stores a lot, and they were a crucial part of my childhood. Now the business model is gone forever. I'm not really mad about it. It was going to happen eventually, and I think that keeping prices at $1 for more than 35 years is quite the accomplishment.
I mean, an extra 25 cents per item isn't much, but it's the loss of the tradition and feeling of a round dollar that I am lamenting here. I have nothing deep to say about this--the forces behind it are obvious and its implications even more so--but man, it just kind of sucks.
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