Dollar General - Discount shopping app

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What is a Dollar General App?

The Dollar General App is the store’s app that can be used to scan items in the store. It’s a great way to see the exact price you are paying before you take the items up to the cashier. Another neat thing about the app is that you can scan items from home. Say you are watching a particular item that you know is on sale but want to see if the price dropped. If you have the UPC number, you can scan to see without being in the store. The Dollar General App is free on Google Play. The app requires Android 5.1 or higher and iOS 11.0 or higher to use it. 

How to Use the Dollar General App?

The Dollar General App is a mobile application that lets you shop for all your favorite items.

It’s easy to use, and it’s available for both Android and iPhone.

Step 1 

Go to google play and download the app to your phone. Sign up and create a password.

Step 2

The page will look like this. On the front of the page to the right at the top you will see change. Click on this and you can type the address of the store in the search bar at the top or use the yellow dots and click on to locate your store. Another way to find your store is to look up on Google. If you type in Dollar General a list of store should pop up near your area. 

Step 3

After you locate your store, the “make this my store” will appear. Click on the button. Now this is your store. When you visit the store, anything you scan will give you the correct price for that particular store. If you decide to visit another Dollar General, you have to repeat step 2. Go back to change and type in the new store address.

The screen now shows this address as your store. 

Step 4

Click on the checked yellow bubble.  If there is a check by the bubble this is the store you picked. The other yellow dots show you the other Dollar Generals in your area. I use this map if I want to go to other Dollar Generals nearby. When you click another yellow dot, the address will show. You can plug it into your GPS and off you go to the next location. Make sure you make the new location your store. Their app also will connect to google maps to take you there. 

You can also use the change button on the app to change the store location. 

Scanning Items on the DG App

Step 5

To scan items, go to the top of the home page and you will see a scan buttom. Click on it and you are ready to scan. If for some reason the scanner isn’t working, then you can use the enter barcode number. If you are scanning clothes and there is no tag, this is a great way to see the price by typing in the tag. Tags on clothes can be found on the item of the clothes. It can be on the front of the garment, the side of pants or just about anywhere. 

Items Going Down In Price

Always be on the lookout for seasonal items. Some of the items are summer toys (pink square), Lawn and garden items, Spring stationary, green dot home, wipeout wipes, hand sanitizers.

Summer items, lawn, summer clothes, certain color code dots like green dots, pink squares, Yellow and White dots (mainly on hanging clothes and shoes), red and green square (mainly on summer shoes like sandals. To get more visuals  and to learn more about color codes click here. These items are seasonal so Dollar General is having sales.

Some stores will put everything on display on a big table near the front of the store. Check weekly or on social media for price drops. Most of the time, the price keeps dropping each week 25, 50,70, 90% until they reach a penny! (see penny blog here). The store suppose to pull before then, but that’s another article. Please don’t ask them about when the items will penny. It’s just something you look for. I get into more detailed on my penny blog.

Other seasonal items dropping right now are:

Yellow and White dot, Blue dot (that says F21 which is Fall 21) This is mainly seen if the store still has hanging clothes. It will be on shirts, tops, pants, jackets, t-shirts. The yellow and white dots are now 50% off. 

Why are these items on clearance? 

This is the normal trend of Dollar General with the exception of F21(fall 2021) is winter of last year. It should have been reduced as low as 90% and removed when it reached a penny. Maybe because of shipping issues during the pandemic they decided to keep it around. Right now it’s 50% off. Yellow and white dot are summer items is also 50% off.

Have you ever picked up something from DG and noticed a dot, square, diamond etc?

These are codes that DG use because these items are considered seasonal. For instance, pink square, green dot and purple dot are seasonal. As well as the yellow and white dot. Yellow and White dot appears on the clothing. If you still have hanging clothes in your store, this is a great time to buy.

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