Citations:dollar-store

Adjective: "(US, Canada) synonym of pound-shop"

 * 1995, Pico Iyer, Cuba and the Night, page 34:
 * Once, I thought I saw her, but it was only another girl, with an East German guy, in the same dollar-store dress she’d worn for my camera.
 * 2005, Ayana D. Byrd & Akiba Solomon, Naked: Black Women Bare All about Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts, page 95:
 * Weave tracks askew, postpregnancy bellies pushing dollar-store seams, they look a hot mess.
 * 2009, Nadia Oehlsen, The Cheap Bastard's Guide to Chicago: Secrets of Living the Good Life – For Free!, page 184:
 * You found the perfect set of matching china and an antique bronze jewelry box priced less than dollar-store plastic.
 * 2012, Rose DiManno, "Star introduces digital subscription because it costs big bucks to put out a decent paper", Toronto Star, 31 October 2012:
 * We may cost a buck from the box but we don’t put out dollar store journalism.
 * 2015, LuBrenda Turner, Love and War in the Concrete Jungle: No Inhibitions...No Regrets, unnumbered page:
 * “Listen Romeo, you can sell your dollar store philosophy of a woman's worth to someone who gives a damn. As for me, I can care less.”
 * 2016, Melodie Campbell, The Goddaughter Caper, page 77:
 * What long-ago sadist decided that gift bows should be made into a freaking hat? Every woman in this room could have afforded the plane fare to Paris, France, just to pick out a new chapeau. Yet here they were, making me wear a bunch of dollar-store bows on my head.
 * 2017, Catherine Hernandez, Scarborough, pages 78-79:
 * I imagined that if you bought dollar store-quality condoms you'd need dollar store-quality pregnancy tests
 * 2021, Dav Adsett, "Congratulations due", The Wellington Advertiser, 28 April 2021:
 * The odd time there may be a few minutes or part of a day slip away depending on immediate duties at the time, but what our readers can always expect is quality reporting – not dollar store journalism where thorough coverage takes a back seat to volume, speed and click counts.