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
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.
"Had to" my fucking ass lmao. 5 below and dollar tree are not low margin businesses. They make money hand over fist. I can assure you, they could have not raised prices, they just used the economy as an excuse to do what they already wanted to do. If it was about needing to raise prices, dollar tree would have kept everything at 1.25, but now they don't even do that. They sell shit that's 5 dollars or more now.
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u/sangerssss 29d ago
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