Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

I had a clerk flip out on me a while back at a Dollar Tree because I wanted a charge for a dollar -- it rang up as 1.25. They rolled their eyes and told me not everything is a dollar, and I maintained that absent pricing stickers indicating otherwise, the default is a dollar. When I pointed out another way to look at it is it's a twenty five percent price discrepancy, someone came out of an office and literally screamed at me and chased me out of the store for "causing a problem", telling me that if I'm going to cause problems, so will she.

I wasn't cursing or yelling, just calmly making the points I made above as the employees took a dive bar approach to customer service...

It doesn't surprise me at all that this kind of thing is intentional -- they're banking on you not walking out without the item having carried it to the checkout.

"the default is a dollar"

There is no default price.

It's called "dollar tree" for a reason, historically prices were and are a dollar unless otherwise noted.

They went up to $1.25 in '21 I think. It was extensively cover by the press.

>They went up to $1.25 in '21 I think. It was extensively cover by the press.

I'd love to see a citation on that, since I think you're mistaken -- there's plenty of things that are still a dollar, mostly stuff like packages of napkins or plastic cups, cards and other sundries.

(What was extensively covered was that they were no longer a "everything is a dollar" store.)