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A couple of good videos about the business of dollar stores with similar takes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QGOHahiVM (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpUV--2Jao (Wendover Productions)

I'm sympathetic to this view, but ultimately I think it's likely they are providing some benefit (even if their practices aren't 100% ethical) or else consumers wouldn't prefer them so much. I don't like to assume that a huge % of the population is too stupid to make basic choices.

Honestly, I don't think that assumption is necessary, and I don't think either video suggests it in the slightest.

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