$ign of the times

Saturday, I went to the dollar store. Our local store includes "dollar" in its name, so it has a heavy investment in that amount. Times have been hard, though, and the dollar no longer is sufficient to buy what it used to purchase. There was a hand-lettered sign on the door: "All items which had been $1.00 are now $1.10."

When I was a child, discount stores offering the same type of goods were called "dime" stores. How times have changed! I'll see you around, maybe at the "dollar-and-a-dime" store.