If you are poor, you make the wrong financial decisions. It’s not easy to make the right decisions.
- How Low Income Affects Routine Decisions – Association for Psychological Science – APS.
- How poverty changes your mind-set | Chicago Booth Review.
- Read This: How 34,000 dollar stores are scamming America.
“The core demographic of dollar stores—lower-income families who earn less than $40K per year—are often living paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to buy in larger quantities, even if it means getting a better deal,” Crockett explains.
Desperation breeds profit for these dollar stores, and it’s a business model that has, perhaps unsurprisingly, proven extremely successful—there are more of these stores than all the Walmarts, CVS, Walgreens, and Targets combined. So yeah, you might wanna consider buying your pool floaties and Chef Boyardee Spaghettios somewhere more ethical like… well… um… damn.
