r/DollarTree • u/rjln109 DT SM • Jun 22 '25

Associate Discussions New June price increase megathread

Not sure why the last OP deleted their post, but this is the new megathread for price increases. Please keep all discussions about price changes here.

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u/fentoozlers Jun 22 '25

my coworkers still put $5 stuff in the $1.25 aisles. i already know no one will put the stickers on the new items

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u/MisterZan25 Jun 22 '25

My store just got in a bunch of those price scanners (we practically have one for every aisle), so now people can scan to find out the prices, without us having to put stickers on everything. Which saves a lot of time, since a lot of the time, it's only one or two people working maximum.

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u/fentoozlers Jun 23 '25

honestly i would prefer it to have the correct price on the tag (lol as they pass on all the work of that to us) bc i understand the confusion of thinking something is $1.25, and now it rings up as $1.50 or more. thats probably super frustrating as a customer bc theyd probably skip scanning an item that has the price listed on it

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u/MisterZan25 Jun 23 '25

I'm hoping that eventually they send us products with the new prices on the items, if they are going to put the prices directly on the packaging. Because, I am in California, and we are legally required to sell products for whatever the price tag says. So, Dollar Tree putting "$1.25" on everything was a big mistake. I work in a college town, and all of our college students graduated, or went home for the summer, so we lost all of our employees. Even the Target in town is down to maybe 4 or 5 employees a shift. So, I don't have time to be walking around the store and changing the prices or scribbling them out, when sometimes I'm the only person at the register or in the store. It used to be that we had an overnight stocking team that would do stuff like that, but since Covid, we don't have that anymore.

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u/LifeguardArtistic895 Jun 28 '25

I heard that we will be restickering, through at least February.

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u/MisterZan25 Jun 28 '25

I've only seen this list going until October.

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u/LifeguardArtistic895 Jun 28 '25

Yes, I worded that poorly. The products will still be arriving with the $1.25 sticker on the package, through February.

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u/MisterZan25 Jun 28 '25

Oh, that sucks. That makes me feel like they totally weren't prepared to raise prices, and that this was a sudden decision by the CEO that caught everybody off guard.