The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending

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Don’t ring the funeral bells just yet, but the self-checkout kiosk horror show could be nearing its end. So far, the grand experiment in robot cashiers is an abject failure. Stores across the country are reversing course on the machines, and consensus is growing among analysts and insiders that self-checkout has been…

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Leaked photos show a Dollar General store with rat-chewed products, a dead rodent, and fecal matter covering the stockroom floor.

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A bag of pet food sits in a metal carrier in a Hutto, Texas Dollar General store. A hole chewed by a rat through the bag is visible.
A chewed up bag of pet food at a Dollar General store in Texas. It's one of the latest examples of a dollar store to face a rodent infestation.

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A TikToker shows how to get an entire week's worth of groceries from Dollar General for just $35

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TikToker Rebecca Chobat has been posting videos about shopping for and cooking with groceries from Dollar Tree for the past year to her "DollarTreeDinners" channel.

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A Dollar General shopper says she tried to check out before realizing the doors were left open after the store closed for the night

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The inside of a Dollar General store in California, including a black and yellow
A recent viral TikTok shows a shopper walking into a Dollar General that was closed but left unlocked.

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Dollar General workers at a Florida store were left without a working restroom, OSHA says

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Dollar General has been repeatedly fined by OSHA.

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'Penny shoppers' are finding hidden $0.01 deals at Dollar General — and it's a sign of a larger problem for the discount chain

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A Dollar General store and a receipt with $0.01 priced items
Dollar General shoppers are searching stores for items that cost $0.01 each, thanks to an inventory policy and the stores' messy state.

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A Dollar General developer sued a Michigan town after it said 'no' to one of the chain's stores

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A customer walks into a Dollar General store though the parking lot in Austin, Texas. A compact Volkswagen car sits in front of the store, with the yellow
A Dollar General developer sued Nottawa Township after it denied a rezoning request that would have paved the way for a dollar store in the town.

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Dollar General has paid a fraction of the $21 million it owes in fines for hazardous working conditions

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Dollar General has paid less than one-fifth of the fines that the federal government says it owes as a result of safety violations at its stores.

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Dollar General's troubles have snowballed into cluttered aisles and stores forced to close by fire marshals. Employees tell us what went wrong.

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Dollar General stores, such as this one in Maryland, are overrun with unpacked merchandise sitting in aisles. Workers have said cuts to their hours are part of the problem.
Dollar General stores, such as this one in Maryland, are overrun with unpacked merchandise sitting in aisles. Workers have said cuts to their hours are part of the problem.

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I shopped at a Dollar General food 'market' for the first time. I wouldn't go back unless it was my only choice.

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Alex Bitter, the reporter who wrote this piece, wears sunglasses and a light jacket while posing in the parking lot of a DG Market in Maryland.
The reporter in front of a DG Market in Maryland.

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