I Saw Real Desperation at Dollar General… Again

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]I posted a video about a week and a half ago where I was telling you all about the woman that I saw at the Dollar General store who was shoplifting food.

[00:00:07]She's in there with her kid and she was shoplifting food. And I could tell with pretty much certainty that she wasn't on drugs and she was shoplifting food, something to eat. So, like I said in that video, I helped I helped her out.

[00:00:24]Well, about 4 days ago, I think that it was. I was in the dollar store and I was checking out and a woman came in and she came in, she looked around and I could tell that she was on drugs the way she looked. And I could be wrong. I know there's always someone in the comments.

[00:00:44]It's blah blah blah, but you can tell when someone is on drugs. She came in and she looked around and she went back out to her vehicle and I had got finished with checking what I was getting out and I came out and I was getting in my truck and I saw her going back in the store with something in her hands and then I didn't think nothing about that but she went in, came back out and brought something back in the store. Okay. Well, the next day I stopped there the next day also because, you know, I pass right by there going to my mom's house. Every time I go to my mom's house, I pass by the dollar store and I will get something for me sometimes. I'll stop whatever, you know, some something I need to say stopping at Walmart cuz Walmart you got to go all the way in there, go all the way through and deal with all that crap at Walmart, Dollar General store, and go in, get it, and get out usually without waiting or anything like that. But anyway, so I was in there the next day. I saw this woman here that I'm I was talking about the day before. I stopped the next day and she was in there again and she had the same clothes on. The next day it looked the same and still yet, you know, you could you could tell that she had the drug problem. Well, she was in there and she was trying to get cash back for something that she had shoplifted.

[00:02:09]At least that's what the management said cuz I was up there. The management was up there. The guy working at the cash register was up there and I told them I saw her in there the day before and I think she tried to do the same thing the day before because she came in, looked around, went back out her vehicle and went back in the store. And what she was doing is she was seeing who was working in there. And that's why she came in, looked around, and went back out because she wants to see probably if the same person was in there. She probably done it before, and she wanted to see if it's the same person that she had done it with before that was working in there.

[00:02:41]And so, two days in a row, she came back in. Don't know if it's the same product or what that she had, but the management said that they wouldn't give her money back because she had no receipt. And when I was talking to the the manager, she said that more than likely that she had shoplifted whatever she had there because she had no receipt and was trying to get cash back for it. And I've heard of people doing that quite a bit, but she wasn't trying to steal shoplift food, anything like that. Wasn't trying to return food.

[00:03:15]She was trying to return something that she had no receipt for to get cash. And you could tell by the way she was dressed because she had the same clothes on. And you can I mean there's gonna be people in the comments. I know everybody in the comments like you don't know. You don't know. You can pretty much tell. No, I don't know 100% certainty. Thousand% but 98% certainty. I know. You can tell the way she was acting, the way she was dressed, the way she looked, the desperation on her face. And you could tell everything. And she was trying to get some money, some cash back. She had shopped it at something, trying to get cash back probably the day before, a couple days before. So, she came back in and was trying to get cash back to go buy drugs. That's what it was. She was trying to get money to go buy drugs with. So, lots of shoplifting at the Dollar General stores, food and everything else from drug addicts, people trying to get food to eat. And uh another another Dollar General store, one that's uh out this way from where I live at. They had a few years ago, the other Dollar General stores did too.

[00:04:19]They put in the selfch checkout. And they lasted about a year. I think there's about a year. And he had to take those out. And I asked why. And the manager at this one here, somebody blowing their horn for some reason.

[00:04:36]Hear that? Hello. whoever you are. Yeah, I think I know who that was actually.

[00:04:41]Anyway, that was my uh stepson actually. I'm pretty sure or my former stepson I guess if you consider my stepson still yet cuz I'm married to his mom for like 12 years there. But anyway, uh where was that here? Was I saying jabbering on? I forgot where I was at. I hate doing that. It's the trouble with these videos. you get sidetracked and you forget what she was talking about.

[00:05:08]But uh she that's a completely different thing than trying to shoplift food because she was just trying to get drugs and I wouldn't give anybody like that any money at all. It's going to take it and get drugs with it. I mean that's just a different kind of desperation that is trying to get another fixed that's trying to get another peel more than likely. Uh maybe fetamine. I don't know what she was doing, but the way she looked probably methamphetamine because she was jittery, jerky, and that's usually I think methamphetamine. I mean, I'm not a professional on these drugs and things they have now. I mean, they got some stuff now that comes from the pharmacy that is a lot a lot more powerful than stuff that was out there when I was growing up. And I know lots of desperation, lots of drug use here in Appalachia, lots of intervenous drug use actually. So, it's not and it's getting more like, you know, urban area, more people moving in. But even the locals, a lot of drug addicts and locals. Uh, I've been uh in my other property where I lived at and I sold that property before I moved down here. But when I lived up there, I would drive out the road and I would see syringes several different times that people would use and just throw up beside the road. That's how bad that it was. you see just through beside the road Serenities and I made a video a few years ago here on the channel where I went and took you all to uh at least if you still if you just watch me to uh the Talis railroad bridge in Tennessee and I link to that much below so you can watch that one but they were there was a syringe there too where someone been camping out probably homeless and shooting drugs it wasn't there then but you see that quite a bit so Appalach is definitely not drugfree. There's lots of drugs here and there's lots of hepatitis C here. Actually, there's lots of methamphetamine manufacturer here. Used to be it was people growing marijuana, but anymore you don't really hear too much about marijuana, pot, weed, whatever you want to call it. You hear pills, prescription medications, uh methamphetamine.

[00:07:24]People don't even really drink alcohol.

[00:07:26]used to. Actually, some people know, but not nearly like they used to. Up at the state line, uh, with the Tennessee Kentucky state line, there used to be a lot of bars up that way. All kinds of bars. People go in and drink, shoot, pool, they would dance and everything in front of bars. And there's a big hangout probably 20 years ago. And they're all closed down now. They're all closed down because I guess people didn't go anymore. People stopped drinking so much. They started doing drugs.

[00:07:56]and drugs took over the area and you know there was a doctor here that he got caught up in pretty much a pill mill and he was selling I mean everybody come in and he was giving those people you know prescriptions for oxycottton and things and he had a pharmacy right beside that was actually connected to his doctor's office and they go right over there and pick it up at the pharmacy that his son actually ran and that was a big deal and they got caught up in it after years and years and years but he's responsible for a lot drug use and a lot of drug addicts in the area, no doubt. And it's under investigation and I think it's a TBI investigating that. And uh they uh closed it down, at least a doctor's office part because he was under investigation for like malpractice I think that it was and it mysteriously burnt to the ground. All of it did.

[00:08:51]Gone. Burnt to the ground during investigation. So that is suspicious, don't you think? But a lot of drug use and I've sort of a lot of shoplifting. Oh, yeah. I think I was talking about the uh selfch checkout at the Dollar General store. But the manager told me, and that was the one right here, not too far from me. She said that uh I talked to people and asked questions. I asked why they taken those out and she said, "Too much shoplifting. Too much shoplifting." She said within in that year that estimated over $25,000 shoplifting in that one store. So definitely people will shoplift, steal, whatever they have to do to get their drugs or just get their fix of adrenaline I guess. So this place is definitely crime, shoplifting, drug use. You have burglaries here every now and then, things like that. But these Dollar General stores, man, when you start shoplifting Dollar General store stuff, $25,000 worth of people shoplifts and trying to get stuff that you bought or not bought, but picked up at the Dollar General store and try to bring that back to get cash to get drugs with.

[00:10:04]And what it is, the Dollar General store, people seem to target those quite a bit. I guess they think that the it's more relaxed than like going in at Walmart because there's more people at Walmart, more people to see, more cameras. So, they can get by with it.

[00:10:18]And they apparently do get by with it more at the Dollar General store. But that woman, she was definitely and she was real skinny. She's real skinny and uh had the same clothes on.

[00:10:31]She had them the day before and they were dirty clothes actually. Just the way she was acting. But she had went in there and like I said the day before I saw her. She came in, looked around. So apparently she had done it before. She had done it before. She want to make sure the person that was working in there that was running the cash register wasn't the one she tried to do it with.

[00:10:52]Probably the day before. She may have been there three days straight. I don't know. But anyway, more Dollar General store drama.

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