I'm not from the neighborhood. I went to this store for the first time today (January 29 2017). Originally I came to the area to look for Dollar Tree which is just across the street. But I decided to go to Dave's Discount to see what they had. There were some nice items but overall it is like a lot of other "99-Cent And UP" type of stores, various items of different prices. Some cheaper than usual, some not. The real downer for me was when I went to the cashier to pay for some items and gave them a $50 bill to pay for a purchase of about $!3. The two cashiers rung it up and I paid and then I asked for the receipt but they told me that the machine is down. You'd think they would automatically offer to give me a written receipt but I had to ask for one. I asked that they write down the date of purchase, the amount I paid , the change I received and the name and address of the store, just what you would get with a regular receipt. It seemed that English was not the two cashier's first language but I still think that they pretended not to understand me more than they actually did. The female cashier started writing down the transaction on a simple piece of paper. I reiterated that I want the date, the address and the money paid to be written down, but then the male cashier told her he would write it down and then he proceeded to take out a more formal looking "receipt pad" to write down the transaction. Again, you would think they would have automatically done it that way in the first place.
The guy handed me the receipt but I had to tell him again to write down how much I paid and how much change I was given. He scribbled it down and I had to tell him to write the store address on the receipt. He just wrote down the building number nothing more. I asked him to write down the phone number but he said that he does not know it.
Honestly. I am sure that these two people probably had a part in running the business .
I would suggest that if you shop in this store, make sure you need what they have. You can find a lot of the stuff in many 99 cent stores and even at the Dollar Tree across the street. Also you should be ready to ask for a properly written receipt if they tell you that their machine is not working.
Furthermore, I think I was overcharged "tax" on my purchase. ~L
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