The Family Dollar Stores are another of a handful of faux-frugal stores out there. Unfortunately, the cheapest part about them is merchandise quality and customer and employee safety/service. Some deals are good, but considering most of the items are made of plastics proven to leach unsafe chemicals (think the glasses, storage containers, toys that will be gummed) or inferior product...just keep that in mind when you buy from this type of place, pretty much across the board. This particular site had a Manager and 2 other employees attacked by a 'customer'...The Company sent in security for a few months (only for 1/2 days), never helped the employees deal with what had occured, laid blame/fired the Manager (who was injured the worst) and just never took it seriously. In an area where shootings have occurred often this seems unwise. They have a revolving door of employees, due to minimum wage pay and especially high expectations (They want to only pay for 2 people per shift but want a high traffic store to look unshopped at and restocked within a day of truck.) As a consumer, use your money to pay for quality and safety :)
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