This Dol Gen is *on* Harlem, not *in* Harlem. If it was, then I'd be able to tell you some amazing Manhattan and Bronx food places to go to nearby, but I can't, so I won't, but if I was, then I would, and crap. The good food around here is, I'd say, Athens Restaurant which is nearby and has excellent souvlaki, and the same goes for Wehrle Restaurant, also nearby. Also Wiechecs and Polish Villa not too far.
Anyway, that's all beside the point.
I got everything I wanted here at this Dollar General, and one of the servers was super hot and super flirty which I really appreciated. However, one of the special deals I was taking advantage of had expired, but they'd left the signs up. They gave me the deal anyway, but the manager had to come over, and it took a good 5-6 minutes of extra time to get us out of there. Luckily, we weren't in a huge hurry and nobody was waiting behind us. It was a bit of a pain though, to say the least.
They have the good kind of water, and my friend said they have all kinds of cool stuff in this store that isn't at the other DGs. I have no idea why this one isn't already on Yelp, but hey... now it is.
Chain info: I come to Dol Gen every Saturday to get 5 dollars off 25 (or sometimes off 30), which allows me to stock up on water from Tennessee (which tastes much better than tap water or any other brand of water, to me), and to stock up on tons of cat food for my kids, too. However, some stores (such as this one) sell the wrong kind of water (from Pennsylvania instead), which tastes awful. I go to different Dollar Generals just to mix it up, and so I can put more of them on the Yelp review map, and because it's always useful to know which ones have the good waters vs the bad.
And if it were a Muslim store, then it'd be Salaam General. May the power of Allah be with you. read more