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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.

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

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    Reviewed Sept. 6, 2025

    This family dollar on colonial heights blv has some shit going on in there not right upon me entering on9/4 the guy at counter nasty I ask him about battery being lock up he told me in nasty way get line I help you if he had behind comer why walk me to case I step away from comer he did something to my battery pack I told I didn’t want it cause they been giving my tickets to outside customers out the back door and ppl was standing around waiting on me to purchase my stuff to get my ticket to take to outside person that was not in the store he turn my item barcode to the camera they give out barcode on tea put stuff on floor turn stuff around ppl in back trying to harm you while u shop the sales guy told me he going knot me out bitch he needs be let go he mad cause he got call out for doing wrong he told me if you know what we doing why keep coming in store I said you don’t tell me we’re go I’m not scared of y’all he threw my money back cause after all he did with battery I didn’t want to spend no money the things that goes on in this place should be look at by law enforcement that’s no on pay role with the outside ppl that sale ppl get pay for and he told me I was band which is find with me the store is hot & dirty stuff mark and laying around this store is danger to ppl health he should be fired you never call customer a bitch especially with the store full of other customers but knot me out would’ve never happened at all stop giving other customers my reco

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    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2025

    I would like to praise the Family Dollar in Georgiana, Alabama. I am constantly amazed at how clean the store is each time I come in. Not to mention the employees are always super helpful and greet me when I enter the door. The store is extremely organized, and it is a pleasure to shop. Lillie is a delight as well as the others! I would encourage anyone who is close to Georgiana, Alabama to stop in and pay them a visit.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 18, 2025

    Don't go to the Family Dollar in Ellenboro, they do not honor their sales that's hanging up on the signs. They got all new staff and they are not friendly at all. I rather go to Dollar General, at least I will get greeted nice at the door. They will not get my business anymore. The store stay dirty and leaks water all the time and the freezer stuff always goes bad. They need new staff and new building.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2025

    Hello, my name is Sandy **. I just want to praise the owners of the store that created Family Dollar that came up with the idea of Family Dollar. I love Family Dollar. I just love it and I mean it from the bottom of my heart. Very low prices. Good things. Cute things. All kind of nicer things that you sell not to mention the staff are great. They’re good and friendly. They’re nice. They’re helpful. God bless y'all.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    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 ServiceTechMaintenanceStaffHonesty & Transparency

    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 ServiceTechPriceStaffRates

    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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    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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    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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    PriceRates

    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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    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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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2024

    I live in Perry NY. The store here is convenient at best some employees just stand around don't put anything away. It's not very clean. They had one employee there that was amazing. Kept things clean and put away but he quit. They need to do better at keeping the boxes out of there and put away.

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    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2024

    Went in for soda, sign "5 for$5" then lists all Pepsi products. 2ltr, through today (Coke was "3 for $5" but like Pepsi). Put 5 Pepsi products on counter, rings $14. Cashier browses flyers, goes to aisle (at least 10 paper signs taped along pricing labels) tries to adjust price, can't. Calls manager. It has now been 20 minutes, wasted another five on her phone call. The manager told her to go take the signs down and don't give it to me for that. So she wants to know if I want to pay $14. I ran back when she went to take the signs down and snapped a photo just before she took the last one but only on the Pepsi side. Was tempted to see if the coke ones worked...lol

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    Reviewed Nov. 8, 2024

    Once again I am writing because apparently, these reviews go unnoticed, unread or cared about. Employees parking their cars and all the front parking spaces was my first complaint, now I'm with everybody else on the complaining about not being able to go down the aisles today was so bad. I had to walk out. I could not get anything I wanted and when the cashier asked why I was leaving I told her why then she got rude to me telling me what the truck just came in and every excuse under the sun. I got 30 plus years in management and Retail. If a DM cannot contact me you don't deserve mine or anybody else's business. PS 3 weeks ago my only complaint was employees parking their vehicles at the front door for 8 hours. No wonder your ratings are so low. Signed pissed off.

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    Reviewed Nov. 2, 2024

    I wanted to share my experience using PayNearMe with Family Dollar “This company is a scam. They took about $2000 of child support from me and they never paid to my kid’s mom. They were offered as a payment option for the Arizona Maricopa Superior Court to pay child support. Instead of paying the money, they told me that they could not find the money. They have stolen my money and made me responsible for thousands of dollars of court fees, child support, and potential jail time. Do not ever use these people. Either they are thieves or they have a faulty system or both. If it was not for the fact that I had my receipt, I could have lost another $300 and they were made to miraculously find $500 but not the other $2000. If there are more victims of this company or any attorneys aware of them, I would like to file a class action lawsuit against them.”

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    Reviewed Oct. 23, 2024

    I had a terrible experience today at this Family Dollar store. I have been buying here for 3 years and it is the first time that an employee is so rude. This woman said she was the manager of the place named SARA. She had a rude and arrogant attitude. I bought two items and I have previously bought these same items for 1 dollar. Now it said 2 dollars and when I paid at the cashier they charged me almost 5 dollars for each item. The “manager” was the worst. She doesn’t know how to speak well to customers.

    Another very nice employee told me that this manager was so arrogant. I don’t like that my son had to see this situation. Fraudulent prices and a manager who seems to have no education. I hope no one buys here. They put prices that are not correct and then they tell you that they cannot return your money. And this manager should not have this position in the store. Now the customer should be more respected, because we are the ones who spend our money in these stores. Obviously I do not recommend this store. She should not name Family Dollar because almost nothing costs 1 or 2 dollars. They also invent policies so that the client cannot ask for money back.

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    Reviewed Sept. 24, 2024

    Was just in our Lovelock, NV store. So many unpacked boxes on the floor that some isles were completely blocked. Nothing on the shelves in some areas. The sales clerks should not have to be doing the stocking. Need to have stocking done at night by a separate crew. This makes shopping very difficult and the store looks unorganized.

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    Reviewed Sept. 19, 2024

    Hi I’m making a review for the Family Dollar in Kansas City Missouri 39th Indiana… That store is not only in a bad environment but the employees are just as bad…. I have seen enough violence go on at the store that will leave me traumatized for a long time…. I don’t feel safe in that store at all, you might even get jumped by the employees at the same time if you have any type of debate with one… People go in that store and just run out the door with merchandise.. No security… They had one in there for a very short time and he played on his cell phone when he was there the majority on the time… Stood by the door and then he was gone quickly… Needless to say I go across to another before I go there… They are a mile away but not I have to go 3 to 4 miles away now because there is no way I will set foot back in that place..

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    Staff

    Reviewed Sept. 17, 2024

    Requesting to scan my Driver's license for purchasing cigarettes is a violation of my security. I have no idea where your computer information goes, so this should not be a requirement by company policy.

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    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2024

    Family Dollar is an absolute horrible company to work for. They allow customers to openly steal all day long because "the sales outweigh the shrink"... But do not dare have a Store Manager open a drink two seconds before paying for it... Taping receipt to drink.. On camera.. Because that's considered theft!!!!

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    Reviewed Aug. 10, 2024

    This would be great if the site worked! None of the coupons they give work, not in the store and not online. It's a complete waste of time! Even the workers say, "Don't bother, it won't work!" Come on you're a multi-million dollar company and you can't get your coupons or your website to work right???

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2024

    Store #01865 Marrows Rd Newark, De has the worst employees I've ever encountered. There's one lady (she may be an manager) who has the worst attitude. She's always on her phone behind the register and she always informs you She's off the clock and doesn't have to ring you up. She just sits behind the counter on her phone. The store was recently remodeled and only one register is in use.

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    Reviewed July 24, 2024

    BEWARE!!! This is by far the worst Family Dollar I have ever encountered... Every time I go to this store there is something missing out my bags. I have noticed this happened too many times. I purchased some items and notice that one or a few of the items that I purchased was not in the bags on numerous occasions. What they do is set it off to the side, then they steal it and take it home later. So on this particular day, I purchased a few items and I noticed that as I was grabbing my bags there was an item on the counter that was mine but I was thinking that maybe it was a extra one on the counter already sitting there, but I started to ask about it...

    Then I get home and notice that it's not in my bag and I thought about how the Employee just slid the item over to the side purposely... So I realized that they have been doing this for a while now. It all makes sense now, because I have had so many items missing out my bags. This allows them to be able to steal without the inventory count being low or off... They don't need to worry about the customer stealing because the employees are the thieves!!! This is just really disgusting that you can't afford some of those items and you work there, You have to steal from the customers! I hope they are caught and fired. All management have to do is check the cameras. So check your items and your receipts to make sure that you have everything and it matches up because it is some true thieves that works for this Company.

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    Reviewed July 2, 2024

    Let me start off by saying I went in to get a couple of things for my son's school so I’m looking around. I ask the employee if she can tell me where the swimming diapers was at, she pointed me somewhere, and they went there going round and around the store. I finally go up to the register, one of the ladies was a manager and I go up to both of them and I show them the diapers and it shows they are in stock, they both looked at me and continue to do what they were doing, completely ignored me.

    I thought they were going to help me so I stand there for a little bit, nothing, they was just looking for something and talking amongst themselves. If these people don’t want to work, they should stay home and let people that need jobs and are good with customer service do that. This is the Van Houten location in New Jersey Passaic or Clifton on the border there. I was disappointed and couldn’t believe what just happened. This was on July 1st around nine at night.

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    Reviewed June 27, 2024

    The Family Dollar on South Madison Muncie IN 47302 has loud cussing music on. Especially the cuss word GD. I will not ship here again with music and one of the employees was right outside the door smoking. State law is 8 feet and she was not concerned at all about the cussing

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    Reviewed June 25, 2024

    I've been going Family Dollar wendell nc for 5 yrs. Got spoiled milk, bad eggs, etc. I didn't want to complain, yesterday I got 6 packs cig, she gave me the wrong ones and wouldn't let me exchange, her fault.

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    Reviewed June 10, 2024

    The complaint is within the image attachments, but I’ll tell you this…They have no real customer service skills. Very embarrassing. I’ve been a Cashier for 15 years, and never could afford to say the associate I had my encounter with even deserves to be a Cashier more or less talking Corporate Material. She needs to be fired.

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