The Dollar General in Ponder is so much cleaner, neater and has better stocked shelves (and the majority of the staff is friendlier) than any other Dollar General in North Texas/Oklahoma that I've visited (I would estimate I have shopped at least once at approximately 12-15 DG stores). I'm thankful that this store was chosen to sell the expanded frozen and refrigerated foods as this has saved me 20 minute trips into Denton at least a half dozen times in the last year.
I am here to pick up something or another at least once a week, but have been in as often as three times in a week, as it is the only place that sells groceries/cleaning products/sundries in all of Ponder and within 20 minutes of my house. (I live outside of Ponder, closer to Wise County and there is nothing out here).
The only complaints about this Dollar General are: 1. The trash can in front of the business is full to overflowing too much of the time and this causes trash to blow all over their parking lot, the grassy areas around the business, the ditch next to the road, the road itself, the houses across the street, etc, etc, etc....and 2. The Women's Toilet. (Possibly the Men's, as well, but I don't know for certain) While public accommodations are something I try to avoid whenever at all possible, sometimes you, or one of your children, will have to use one unless you are a hermit. While the bathrooms here are not the worst I've seen in the USA, and they are by far better than most every bathroom I encountered in northern India, they are not swept, mopped, cleaned or sanitized at ALL enough that they should be associated with a major business like Dollar General. Last week, the Women's room was well stocked with TP and Paper Towels, the sink was working and fairly clean, but the amount of dead brown crickets and dead brown cricket legs in the bathroom was too many to count. The floor also needed to be mopped. The bathrooms really need a MAJOR cleaning/scrubbing from top to bottom. This is the reason for the deduction of one star. read more