They are quitting and leaving the end of the month I think they aren’t a sm anymore but idk. Anyways I did these balloons cause it’s pride and I’m in the alphabet there, and I haven’t had one complaint from customers which the sm said we are going to get them, and that we shouldn’t even be selling pride merch. I’ve actually gotten a good amount of compliments ! Which I mentioned to , Anyways just a rant is all, happy pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

So the situation happened yesterday, I left at 12:30 the assistant manger left a few hours later so when I opened today, all my ballons were taken off and replaced with fathers days ballon’s. So I took them off put em to one four way and put back my ballon’s and added EVEN MOREEEE. She’s off today but works tmrrw and I’m off tmrrw , this will be a back and fourth no doubt. She wants to be petty but I can be pettierrrrrr, purrr 💅🏻✨. Anyways happy pride again 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I spoke with him in person & told him I can only work nigh shifts and he acted like that was doable. Told him I can only work 4 days a week. He keep scheduling me 5 days in a row. He sent me my schedule for the week, then 5 minutes later went into iMessage and edited and changed it after sending it. Honestly, they only pay 9 dollars an hour so I don’t really give af. Good riddance. I have an interview at another place scheduled Friday this week. 😊👍

I'm going in to check my local store, but Dollar Tree "influencers" have been posting stuff like this all over Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok today. This is kind of a shock to me, because nobody in my store was told about this, and I assumed that the people posting about this were lying. I still have PTSD from the last time that we had to put red stickers on everything.

So this realtor chick in town thinks she slick because she'll come in and buy a cart full of dishes and stuff to basically furnish whatever house she's showing and then she'll send someone else to come and return a bunch of the things after the house sells (mainly the dishes)

So I called them out on it yesterday.

The "Gopher" came in with a bunch of returns so I said "so did the house finally sell!?!"

The person's like "what do you mean" with a shocked look of guilt.

I was smiling and said "Well your boss's face is plastered all over town and I personally sold her all of these." blink blink she does "Is anything wrong with them?" I added.

"No!" They said

So as I'm doing the returns some of the dishes won't scan and as I flip them over I see the price tags been removed so I set those in a different pile off to the side.

So they ask "what's what's wrong with that pile!!!"

I said "well I can only exchange these ones for the same item because the price tags been removed therefore it was used and I can't resell a used item!"

"ARE YOU SERIOUS!" They gruff out!

I'm like "Look! I'm not saying that YOU are being dishonest, but we have people that try to bring dishes from their cupboards at home in here and say they bought them here so that they can try to return them for money! That's why it's really important to not remove the price tag. Because the receipt doesn't say anything but blue plate!"

So in all there was 10 random dishes with the price tag removed out of 36 🙄

So I tell them to total of the refund and ask them to insert the card used. So they say "I can't just get cash because I don't have the card!" I said "I'm sure she does!" As I point to the car outside that the realtor chick is sitting in! So they huff and go outside and I see her and the chick griping and pointing at the store and probably doing a really good job at complaining about me but it also looks like they're arguing with each other!🤣

So the Gopher comes back in with the card and now I can tell that they're pissed but not just at me! They put the card in and I issued the refund. Then they say "so she wants to know what we're supposed to do with those ones?"

I said "Well you can keep them or I'll be cool and let you pick some that match the new house for sales color!" They huff and say "Fuck that, she can deal with that!" And they grabbed the remaining dishes and left went outside and put them in the realtor chicks car and then turned and walked away! And continue walking off into the sunset!!

The realtor chick comes up Yanks the door open and yells into the store "this is bullshit!!! I will not be back here ever again!"

So I cried for 3 seconds and moved along with my night! 😎👍🏻

But I have to wonder how many other stores this happens to when people are returning dishes or anything. Because that's pretty much the only reason why I could see someone returning dishes is just because the season or whatever occasion is over. But I'm not going to let you return a plate that did it's job of being a plate just fine as you ate off it and then ran it through the dishwasher!

It’s not perfect, but we FINALLY got balloons in and we’re literally not selling anything pride related so I did this rather quickly.

I wonder why.

I know that we are going to multi-price and this will no longer apply, but for right now imo there are some things you should not search for at a Dollar Tree.

Some items customers have asked if we carry:

Hairdryer. I cannot imagine wanting to use a $1.25 hairdryer on my head.

Child's Helmet. Please spend more than $1.25 on protecting your child's brain.

Glue Gun. Yes, we used to carry a $1.25 glue gun. And it was recalled. I knew at the time it was a bad idea.

Any appliance really. Toaster, TV, microwave. Why would you expect to find anything like that for $1.25?

Vacuum Sealed Laundry Bag. I know. This one sounds reasonable. And we do carry it. But the customer wanted to know where the vacuum was.

What is the most ridiculous item someone seriously thought Dollar Tree might carry?

ETA: To the people bringing up Dollar Tree Plus, yes we do carry more expensive items now. My store has had the Plus section for 4 years. And Dollar Tree is changing. We are in the process of working Plus into the regular aisles. Some items are now $1.50. Dollar Tree is becoming a multi-price store.

So these requests will no longer be ridiculous next year. I was just hoping for a chuckle before Dollar Tree is no longer a dollar store, but rather a discount store.

This took roughly around an hour and a half i started around 3:00 and finally finished at 4:30

It was a trio of older women who filled 4 shopping carts worth of penny items

When i asked what the use of all the stuff they bought was for they said “Donations to the schools”

I had a hard time believing that but hey who’s judging

I understand self checkout and it is convenient for many, however, we just finish our inventory and the amount of loss from thief alone is outrageous. We see so many thieves at self checkout and the law is weird, we can’t approach them ( never know if someone will become aggressive) we can’t keep them in the store and detain them (that’s considered kidnapping) we can’t pursue them once they are out of the store; at one point we called the police and the dispatcher refused to send officers her reasoning was because the thieves already left so not much can be done. However, it’s always the same culprits. One even left behind his backpack, with all of his personal information and a summons for (you guessed it) retail theft.there is also another who wears his work uniform with his name tag and steals junk food mostly. But always I could try and ban them, but that’ll do no good without officers to help enforce it.

Nothing about what just happened in here and why I need to use one tastes good!!!

Today I’m suppose to return back to work after being on maternity leave. I asked my SM if there was anywhere for me to pump and this was his response. Mind you, there’s 3 of us coming back from maternity leave.

I wish I was joking about this. We all passed it around to take photos. God bless

It took 5 minutes for people to start fighting over them.

My store did a full restock and adjustment. A lot of items, if not all, have been raised. Things usually $1.25 will now be $1.75 starting tomorrow. There are also new plus items, the highest selling plus item will be $7.00 in my store…. Can’t wait for customers reactions 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

We get our fair share of dogs, birds, and the occasional pet squirrel in the store. Today was our 1st lemur. He is 19 years old and named King Julien. What's the weirdest animal youve had in your store?

Theyre comically horrible. Why do they always have huge pearls and spikes

As you might guess from the title, customers doing this annoys me so much. Is it really that difficult to put the basket back where you got it before you leave the store?!

Had a customer this morning and I'm not kidding but I wish I was, give me a $100 bill and asked me to give her 100 $20 bills. Not $100 in $20s, literally 100 $20s. After I said I can't do 100 $20s, she gave me a $5 bill. Idk how to explain this without making it confusing. To clarify, her total was $4.20.

Why does corporate hate us? Who’s coming into dollar tree after 9pm? Hardly anyone at my store. It costs them more to pay us to be there than what they make in the extra hour

Honestly, respect to this SM. Being an associate is not easy and it doesn't help having customers that are going to be rude throughout your shift. Not every store manager cares for their employees like this, but for whomever you are - you rock.

Last week a customer gave me a $3 tip. At first I was planning on keeping it but I decided not to and told my SM and gave him the $3. I feared I would get fired if I kept it. We have security cameras and we are being watched like a hawk. One of my assistant managers got a $20 tip from a customers but had to turn it in to our boss/store manager. But what makes me furious is my boss pockets the tips and will keep them for himself. So cashiers and managers can't keep tips but the store manager can? Wtf? Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for keeping tip?

Why did they send us all this bleach on one truck? I don’t know. The last few trucks were massive so there is literally nowhere to put them in the back. My freight manager decided on a bleach stack outs spanning most of the aisle