Dollar General, Home of the Weasely Pricing…

The other day, I thought I spotted what I thought was a good deal at the local Dollar General store.
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I like succotash!  I make succotash pretty regularly (I’ll have to share my recipe some day).  It’s sweet and savory and full of delicious goodness.  And only a dollar to boot.  I picked me up a couple of cans for a quick and easy and healthy lunch choice.

Well, I tried the first can and discovered that my definition of succotash is quite different from Allen’s definition of succotash.  Don’t get me wrong, Allen’s succotash was good.  It wasn’t, however, sweet like I’m accustomed to.  My succotash has sugar and creamed corn added to the mix.  Allen’s left out the sugar and creamed corn and added… tomatoes.  It was good, but I was a little disappointed.  This was not really, in my mind, succotash.  Maybe that’s the difference between “succotash” and “triple succotash”?

And then I noticed that Dollar General’s little “Clearance” label was coming off, so I decided to peel it back and see how much of a savings I had earned by shopping the “clearance rack” at good old DG.

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Yeah… I got swindled.  I always make fun of people who like buy stuff in the larger container because they think they are getting a good deal when they are actually paying more per ounce than if they bought a smaller quantity (Walmart is famous for this), and here I am buying something just because it had a little orange sticker on it declaring that the product was on “clearance”.

Now, I didn’t really get swindled, but I would not have purchased the succotash if I had known it was full price.  That’s just the way I roll.  I don’t know who I am more disappointed in:

• Dollar General for using this misleading and unethical (although entirely legal) method of promoting its products
• or me for falling for it.

Needless to say, Dollar General has lost my trust, and I will shop with more trepedation in the future…