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::I was leaning towards removing it from the list altogether, which I've done for now.  There are may terms which belong on these lists, but some like this one are better left off if it takes too much qualification to use them properly.  To restate the point above succinctly, saying that something is "dime store quality" is a common criticism of quality, but if you only paid a buck for it then you have nothing to complain about.  Consumers don't go to dime/dollar stores looking for quality - they are part of an important economic market where they are willing to part with a dollar for an item that's worth a dollar, and as long as that's what they get then the free market's working as it should.  The place of these stores in today's economy would probably make an interesting discussion in the next edition of your Economics course.  --[[User:ChrisY|ChrisY]] 11:59, 17 January 2010 (EST)

::I was leaning towards removing it from the list altogether, which I've done for now.  There are may terms which belong on these lists, but some like this one are better left off if it takes too much qualification to use them properly.  To restate the point above succinctly, saying that something is "dime store quality" is a common criticism of quality, but if you only paid a buck for it then you have nothing to complain about.  Consumers don't go to dime/dollar stores looking for quality - they are part of an important economic market where they are willing to part with a dollar for an item that's worth a dollar, and as long as that's what they get then the free market's working as it should.  The place of these stores in today's economy would probably make an interesting discussion in the next edition of your Economics course.  --[[User:ChrisY|ChrisY]] 11:59, 17 January 2010 (EST)