You have a point there, I meant though the $1 shops sometimes do have good stuff.
Depends alot on the store maybe too.
I got Crayola sparkle paper and sticker paper $1 a pack each (less actaully wholesale)
and lots of greating card and photo paper packs also, name brand stuff. Checking the retail it was about $10 around normal stores and online for the same thing when I could find it.
I think some of what they sell is good closeouts or over stocks often, then they have the everyday stuff that is cheap junk too of course.
Sometimes I just can't see how they can do it on some items. I bought some dolls once, took all they had, several cases. Went to an outdoor flea market (I had other stuff I needed to sell) and had one sitting out with no price on it. When people asked what I wanted for it, I asked what they wanted to pay, I thought it was fair to just take what they offered. Normally $10
They would look at the ones in the cases and pick one out.
Then when I was ready to leave after the weekend another vendor asked if I would sell them to him, so I did, $5 each he took all.
Weeks later I was there walking around, and he had a couple out with $15 price tags, he asked if I had more he could buy.
How/why they were $1 and at an Everything $1 type store I'll never know.
That was probably the best deal I ever found there, but I often find similar good deals, just not that good.
That's kinda a hobby of mine, but I have not had time for it for a long time now.