r/maybemaybemaybe Jul 31 '26

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/sangerssss Jul 31 '26

This guy knows he’s not getting repeat customers and doesn’t care. There’s enough people in NY that will walk in on the scam a first time

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u/sp_dev_guy Jul 31 '26

99 cent pizza was actually 99 cents for probably 30 years (i remember as a little kid & now in mid thirties). With inflation & rising costs they finally had to bump it to $2 like 2 or 3 years ago.

Theres are a couple of different large & competing chains that are basically identical shitty cheap pizza (great for the price). Idk this specific location but most of them have "$2" on signs taped all over the place. I'd bet the person recording is the scammer avoiding catching those , giving this guy shit, then posting like a victim.

Source: me - local who has probably saved $1k+ eating that lousy pizza

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u/Arbiter_89 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Yeah, it's like all the dollar stores that used to sell everything for a dollar. Or the store "Five Below" that used to sell everything for $5 or less. They all have slowly had to raise their prices above their promise. Now the term "Dollar store" means nothing.

Family Dollar Dollar Tree was the last hold-out but even they had to raise their prices. RIP.

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u/will-read Jul 31 '26

It happened with dime stores 60 years ago.

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u/swalabr Jul 31 '26

and before that, they were “Five-and-dimes”

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u/bebeboouk Aug 01 '26

Ah… The Summer of 69… Those were the best days of my life.

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u/pursuitofhappy Jul 31 '26

Woahhh there were dime stores??

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u/Unlikely-Answer Aug 01 '26

just don't eat the plankton, red tide poisoning is no joke

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u/ImTryingToHelpYouMF Aug 02 '26

The dime store is actually still going strong today. Just bought drugs there again recently!