if this trend continues, Dollar Stores will start to make cents.
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Dollar General Stores
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If doillar Tree and Family Dollar didn't merge, would there still be 1,000 stores closing?
We have a home in Grand Rivers,KY and we have a local IGA and a dollar general. THe dollar General is closer to our home so for most things like staples of bread eggs and milk that is where I go. I pay a little more but I can get a birthday card there or vitamins or cleaning supplies or even motor oil. The population is only 386 so no major retailers are coming here.
Pretty sure that’s a regulated amount…
I learned way more about it than I ever cared to know a few years back in my days in the Chemistry stockroom and troubleshooting an experiment where we used bleach as an oxidizing agent. We had stocked up on “Concentrated bleach” from one of the chemical suppliers(they gave us a deal, and at a university sometimes that’s just easier) and all of a sudden that experiment quit working unless we used some older plain “bleach” we had on hand.
I ended up doing a dive into the labeling and such, as well as buying a bottle of nearly every “bleach” Kroger sold.
What I found, and I’m working sort of from memory, is that “bleach”, no qualifiers, is 5% sodium hypochlorite, while “concentrated” is generally 6.5% and “ultra” is 7.5%.
BTW, I had a terrible time even finding just plain bleach. I ended up with the most generic looking bottle I could find, and was only able to get it in quart bottles.
Also, for this experiment, we never were able to get anywhere by diluting higher concentration bleach down to 5%. I suspect it goes back to how it is made, which is by dissolving chlorine gas in sodium hydroxide, and I expect that the higher ultimate concentration of sodium hypochlorite changes this. I did do some starch-iodine titrations to confirm bleach content, but never an acid-base titration to look at this part(and that can get tricky dealing with as much sodium hydroxide as is normally present in bleach anyway, plus acidifying in a titration releases chlorine…a common cheap way under other circumstances to make chlorine water…).
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I honestly don't know but I do remember when we had a swimming pool and "pool chlorine" was hard to find, everything/everyone said just use laundry "bleach" but to be aware that it's not the same concentration - you have to use (a lot) more. Isn't "bleach" just a blend of NaClO and water (and sometimes add'l components) ? In the chemical world, you would source NaClO and blend it as needed for your application.
Bleach typically comes in 5 to 9 percent solutions in consumer products. The problem with bleach is that it starts to degrade away and the active concentration starts to decline. Who knows how long that cheap brand will be on the shelf which is why it may not declare a concentration on the label. It may start out as 5% sodium hypochlorite, but after 6 months on the shelf it will be significantly weaker.
Sorry, I hit by post before I finished my thoughts.
In any case, sodium hypochlorite as a solid isn’t exactly something that’s done. It’s super unstable-in fact actually a contact explosive as an anhydrous solid(and just prone to decomposition as the pentahydrate).
Writing this post made me read up a bit. I knew it was made by dissolving chlorine in sodium hydroxide, but of course it’s more complicated than just that. There are actually several equilibrium reactions going on, and formation of hypochlorite is favored at higher pH. The exact pH can influence what other species are present, though, and in general higher hypochlorite concentrations require higher phs.
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Had a meeting today and couldn't get out of bed. Been nursing a bad back...chronic issue.
Got out to my truck which was monumental and drove to the Dollar General and parked up front. Saw the manager as she walked up to my truck and I told her how messed up I was.
She told me to tell her what I needed and it was for Tylenol which ain't great but I can't take NSAIDs. Gave her the money and she shopped for me and brought it out and gave me a hug....
That's service.
Got out to my truck which was monumental and drove to the Dollar General and parked up front. Saw the manager as she walked up to my truck and I told her how messed up I was.
She told me to tell her what I needed and it was for Tylenol which ain't great but I can't take NSAIDs. Gave her the money and she shopped for me and brought it out and gave me a hug....
That's service.
Given your other fictional stories of killin' it with the ladies, I call BS
And if you're looking for painkillers in the Dollar General parking lot and only got Tylenol, you're doing it all wrong
In all seriousness I hope it eases up. I had back surgery in '07
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Bad for those that have had bypass surgery. Increases heart attack risks by a large percentage.
Bad for any vascular issues. I can’t have them either.
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Yep, with the vascular issues, stroke risks are higher than the heart attack risks.
No NSAIDs for me either. Besides vascular, I have atrial-afib to deal with and my blood pressure has spiked recently, which has caused my primary doctor to increase my dosage..
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Same here...and the same for Dollar Tree.
Clean and well run and in great areas.
Our dollar general and family dollar closed last Wednesday
Sounds like land values are about to go up!
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We had a fairly new Pop Shelf close - been wondering if it won’t come back as our 2nd DG … High traffic location …
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We have 4 Dollar Generals and two Dollar Trees in our trailer park. If we could just get a Vape shop and convenience store where we could get our Monsters, Red Bulls, Mountain Dew, Lottery Tickets and Cigarettes, we wouldn't have to put shoes on most days of the week.
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