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Family Dollar has operated a chain of discount retail stores since 1959. The company offers a variety of products, including groceries, household essentials, personal care items and seasonal goods. Family Dollar has over 8,000 locations in neighborhoods throughout the United States.

Pros
  • Well-organized and clean store
  • Good product selection
Cons
  • Inconsistent pricing issues
  • Rude behavior from some employees

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    Reviewed July 28, 2025

    1917 Centre Ave Pittsburgh PA 15219 store closing way too early, an hour early, won't let customers in, rude employees and I was told they do as they well please. The store is dirty. Produces all over, carts blocking products, and lines extremely long, employees walking around not helping and not caring...

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    Reviewed July 22, 2025

    Manager is very unhelpful. Won’t let you look at the hot wheels they have in the back. Guess she expects people to buy the same dusty ones off the pegs that have been there all year. 3 boxes just sitting there and instead of making profit for the store she chooses to let them not sell.

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      Customer ServiceStaff

      Reviewed July 4, 2025

      I've been coming to N. Chili Family Dollar for 12yrs & never had a problem in spite that I heard rumors that the boss was racist from a couple of my neighbors and from Google reviews, I witness myself that when an ** person would walk in and their shopping they would be followed around and would be asked if they needed help and they will feel uncomfortable because they felt like they were being treated like thieves and wind up being kicked out of the store. My issue was with the manager on July 1 when I finished checking out and ask for cashback I had just finished picking up prescriptions for pain and one of them happens to be ** and as I drop two pill bottles in my Michael Kors book bag, I didn't exactly see when both bottles fell in because I was busy putting my cash in my fanny bag echoes around my shoulder.

      When I got home to get my belongings out, I noticed only one pill bottle fell out when I went back to the store. I asked the manager if she can please look on the floor around the register to see if my medication bottle is on the floor. She did not bother to look. All she said was, "No. I saw when you put both bottles in the bag," and I asked her, "Can you just please look." She refused and just said, "No, I saw when you put it in your bag?!" I was in pain and I noticed that she was alone in the store. There was no other staff not even the boss was around and there was customers by the register already so I went back home and I continue looking for my pain medicine that I needed it really bad For my pain.

      I knew for sure that she was lying because that was the only place that I could've dropped it because my Michael Kors bag is a book bag and there is no way that it was opened and that my pill bottle could've just jump out. I went back the next morning and she was the one who was going to open the store and I told her to call the boss cause I wanna talk to her because I know she took my pills and all she said was she's coming at 10 a.m. and I told her, "Call her now or I'm calling the police," and she said, "Oh well." So I had to call the police.

      I was trying to handle it civilized so the first thing she did was go straight to the back and I don't know what she did, but whatever she did when the police got there to look at the footage, they couldn't see exactly how many pill bottles I put in the bag or if anything fell out so therefore that made me look like I was lying and I asked him. "Did you see the part when I came back and asked her if she could please look for it and she didn't even try to look around for it," and they didn't say anything. The boss stood there looking at me and I said, "Did you see the part when she didn't even try to look because that's important because as a customer she should've been trying to help me look around because she wasn't even trying. That's how I know she took my pill **, which I need for my broken tailbone, which is why I need to take it."

      The boss didn't even want to say that I was banned from the store, but the officer said that I was banned and I said no. I've been myself because I will not come here no more. I've been coming here longer than she has been working here, which is only a couple of months And it's OK because lately a lot of ** and ** have been complaining about the racism that's going on in that store and it's a shame the amount of customers that she's losing because of that.

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      Customer ServicePriceStaff

      Reviewed June 25, 2025

      The store 08377 manager Kim has a very nasty, unprofessional and unpleasant attitude. I went to the store on 6/25/25 and an item I thought rang up wrong so I went to verify the price and she came back and verified as well. Her response to me was in a very nasty tone, "Do you want it or not," because she does not have all day. I asked her not to speak to me in that tone and she began yelling at me in a high tone. I asked her kindly to stop yelling at me which she became louder stating she does not have all day and do I want my items or not and she does not have all day. This location has been very hostile as I have witness her yelling at other while her employees apologize for her behavior. I have never seen a store manager act like this. For me customer service is number one and she needs to be re evaluated as that is highly uncalled for. I would like to be contacted by corporate.

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      Staff

      Reviewed April 5, 2025

      I dislike it when the store usually have items all the time then all of sudden they no longer have it. They usually have Philadelphia Eagles bedsheets and other nice products and now they have zero of NFL Philadelphia Eagles. The employees are ok. Some are not friendly while others are friendly. Mixture of both. There isn’t anything in that store I want to buy and would want me to say, “Let’s go to Family Dollar!”

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      Customer ServiceStaff

      Reviewed April 1, 2025

      Went into Family Dollar today to grab my tissue and some honey, I noticed a staff member at the register, she spoke upon me entering and also had her phone in her hand. I thought for sure she would put this phone down at least til the customer was gone but no, not this one, even when I proceeded on to ask her what's in that phone gold, she didn't answer.

      So I proceeded to ask her who the manager is and she responded that she is the manager. (I said to myself, omg, she doesn't even care and this is the manager). So then I asked her, "Do your employees also be on the phone like that?" She replies, "Maybe, depends who's working" and I said to her, "Or it depends on what the manager will allow as she continued to play in her phone." If there's ever a question on why this place is the way it is, maybe because of this manager that is running the place, clearly could care less... Customer service is not even in her thoughts.

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      Customer ServiceStaff

      Reviewed Feb. 10, 2025

      35th Halsted Chicago. The absolute worse place to ever go if you value your life. ** for employees, nasty to look at. I was being assaulted right at register and they did nothing but harass me for wanting info to bring to police. Some random ** guy filming me all the way to my car as they were saying they were security. They have no security cause they do the assaulting. Tried to call corporate and was going up on. Disgusting place with useless people working.

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      Customer ServiceStaff

      Reviewed Jan. 22, 2025

      I went to the Family Dollar in Edon Ohio and there was one older lady that was at the register after I got my items and she was so rude and impatient with my son when he wanted to try to pay the lady and when we got out of the store he was crying. This is so unelectable.

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      Price

      Reviewed Jan. 17, 2025

      Prices are higher than anywhere else, almost 4 dollars higher on Maxwell house instant coffee, want pictures? I buy this constantly and thought I would save a little time because it is right next door. I will not shop there ever again. Already sent a complaint to their headquarters.

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      Customer ServiceStaff

      Reviewed Dec. 29, 2024

      I called to ask a question as to what the instacart button on the Family Dollar website goes to and wondered what they did for family dollar. I wasn’t sure what instacart had to do with family dollar but I called store #12627 and experienced rude customer service by the manager today, 12/29/2024 around 1:30pm . All they said were they never heard of instacart and that family dollar was a multi million dollar business. Well why does that matter in this case? Very rude people I tell ya.

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