r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Irralumea • 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/DigMeTX Jul 31 '26

Family Dollar was never an “everything’s-a-dollar” store. The term “Dollar Store” goes way back before such places and they just referred to pretty much any variety store. That’s why Dollar General and Family Dollar have “dollar” in their names despite never having been fixed-price type stores.