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What do you think have we taken for granted before it was enshittified? (kbin.melroy.org)

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Dollar Tree.

It used to have been an unreal experience witnessing the existence of these stores when they came out. Everything for a $1. No joke. The quality of some things have had corners cut and the quantity might've been laughable, but there was a good solid purpose for these stores.

And then I started seeing the signs after a few good solid years of shopping there. The first sign was how they stopped selling eggs. This was before the Bird Flu. They stopped selling eggs because they simply couldn't afford to buy stock and then the price hike to $1.25 happened.

And now they've hiked the prices again to $1.50 for some products in a handful of stores. Additionally, they've incorporated items going from $2 ~ $15 so they have long lost the role and title of being the most affordable places to shop.

Gone were the days.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It was so good that "googling it" is still in common parlance, even though the phrase has baggage and isn't used in the same case-closed tones as it once was.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh man, and when all the Boolean operators were revealed to work on search, doing some "Google-Fu" was laughably easy, but blew people away. Back before there was so much noise, anything online was possible to find.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

I know they took away my negative operator, which is the main one I used. The anger is still fresh years later.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 4 hours ago

I haven’t used Google in a few years (in fact all Google servers are blocked on my network) but I still can’t stop saying “I’ll Google it.”