Dollar General — Local services in Oneida

I needed to run into DG on Sunday this week to get some dog food and coffee creamer. The store is a great convenience (though often out of things) and the staff are nearly always friendly.

I have an auto-immune disorder and am quite guarded about my health - especially in light of COVID-19.

So I pull up to the handicap spot in front of the store, and for the first time I can remember, there was signage prominently placed upon both front doors (and at conspicuous locales throughout the store). As I dawned my mask to enter the store, I noticed several consumers entering the store without masks. I do not remember the wording exactly, but the sign indicated that masks are required.

This store, per my observation, seems to have a very good traffic flow - especially on Sunday afternoons - and so there was lots of shoppers in the store.

I counted all of two (2) patrons who wore masks. One employee had a mask, but was pulled below her chin which rendered it completely useless. But I digress.

My concern is that there is an apparent corporate policy that is in response to a public safety epidemic that is NOT being followed.

I expressed this to the employee who checked me out and was advised, “you can call the corporate office and complain (which felt like I was being brushed off). I suggested that they either enforce the apparent corporate policy (Walmart does at their stores) or to remove the very misleading signs.

As the conversation with staff seemed to be going nowhere, I now am taking this to the corporate officers with the same suggestion: either enforce the misleading policy, or remove the signage. The signage, again, is misleading especially to folks like myself who have underlying comorbid medical conditions.

I will not be returning to the Oneida store unless and until either the policy is enforced; or the misleading...

The Dollar general in Oneida is an absolute joke I feel embarrassment as a woman I had started my monthly and was I wasn't near my home so I stopped in to pick up some feminine products not only did they have next to nothing on their shelves I had to pay extra just because it was a name brand because there was nothing on their shelves and see if I could use the restroom and they turn me away and said I couldn't it wasn't that I needed to use it just that I wanted to put something on to protect my clothing so I had to go next door and embarrass myself even further so thank goodness for Goodwill they absolutely stepped up even though their restroom was actually broke y'all should be ashamed and I will never come back to this Dollar general in Oneida Tennessee on Alberta St. And to have women working there on top of that they could even sympathize absolutely disgusted hurt and utterly...

Wow. Just wow. Reeks of cigarettes. I was in there for 5 min and my car now is an ashtray. I was only in there for five minutes because there was no cashier. Did I mention how dingy and disgusting the place is? Did I mention that they were playing some preacher talking about jesus in the most monotone voice at painfully loud levels? I couldn't even think. -5/10. Do not stop at this backwards, run down, zealot shop. BTW, no one complies with the mask mandate despite the sign on the door. Why even have rules if we aren't going to...