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ELI5: How do stores like dollar general make profit?
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Cheaper off-brand products bought in bulk.

Think of it like this...You have Scotch-brite brillo pads for washing dishes you can buy at a Wal-Mart for $2 right?, Where as Dollar General sells the knock off "Scot-brit" brillo pads for $1.

It costs the "Scot-brit" company 20 cents per pad they make, They sell them in bulk to the retailer at 40 cents a pad for 50,000 pads to distribute to all their stores nationwide, Which they sell for $1.