I fail to see how the Dollar Store type things survive. I bought some packing tape and it was, of course, the absolute worst stuff ever. Utterly impossible to use, ripping, tearing, just throw in the garbage type junk. Which means I have now been trained to never bother to buy anything there ever again.

I guess maybe it is like Trader Joes or something where you have to know what to stay away from e.g. the cheese, but you get enough other good things e.g. the brown sugar, that you don't entirely give up.

But I haven't ever really gotten enough stuff at dollar stores to be hooked, so I am pretty sure I just utterly dislike them at this point.