Dollar Tree carts with pole attached and senior citizens

[dilettante]

Weird that shopping carts require such gadgetry. But I hear that stores are locking more and more stuff up behind panels on the shelves too. None of that here. I guess crime is more out of hand in some areas than others.

 

[JustDave]

I don't shop Dollar Tree, around here the main clients are the druggies and parolees. It looks to me that the quality of goods at DT is correspondingly lower to the lower prices.

Dollar General is like that too. But if you buy the brand names, it's going to cost a little more than Walmart. If you buy their generic brands, the quality will be less in most cases, but the prices on those generics may be 1/3 of the cost of the name brands. To my, taste the quality of the generics at Dollar General are easily detectable, but my God they are cheap. I buy them often, because I can't resist the cheap price, and it's not like the stuff tasted rotten, just not as good.

 

[pkai]

One of our stores here(we have 2) the one close to our home has shopping carts with poles attached so you can't take them out the door to your car, what are the elderly and disabled supposed to do if they can't carry their bags and have walking issues.I have tried emailing and calling corporate to no avail. It is simply profit over people. They are trying to save money by not paying a person to get the carts in their lots but they are keeping us out thus losing profits so what have they gained? I see people struggling to get in their stores and struggling to carry their bags back out using canes etc. We cannot go there and won't go there but it is not right in my opinion.

They also need to change the name of their store it is no longer the Dollar Tree it is 1.25¢ store

Totally agree with you! I'm a senior with severe back problems and need the cart for balance and taking goods to the car. The other day I bought a cartload of goods and couldn't leave with the cart. I couldn't carry all those bags to the car even if I didn't have back problems. Fortunately for me, two wonderful young ladies asked if I needed help and they carried all my bags to the car and wouldn't accept any money. It warmed my heart to be on the receiving end of their kindness!

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Perplexed, I started joking that they should change their name to "Buck & a Quarter". If I was in that position, I would ask for the manager and say hey...I just patronized your store but I cannot carry these packages due to my disability. Would you please send an employee out to help me with that. Any manager worth his or her salt would do it, even if it meant being the one who assisted. Very rarely have I asked for anything in a retail establishment that I didn't get.

A blind friend of mine says when she goes into Walmart, they provide someone to go around with her. We took her last time, so that wasn't necessary. She also got help from a Burlington employee who helped her out of the store in her rolling walker with a seat while her daughter pulled the car up. But unfortunately, the woman allowed her to fall and she wound up going to the hospital.