Shoppers Buying Groceries at Dollar Stores as Food Inflation Persists

A clerk brings in a shopping basket at a Dollar Tree store in Richland, Miss., on Nov. 26, 2019. Dollar Tree and Dollar General both reported sales increases for the fiscal second quarter, on Aug. 25, 2022, Rogelio V. Solis/AP Photo

U.S. consumers have been increasingly turning to dollar stores for groceries, as supermarket prices remain more than 10 percent higher this year, new data show.

Coresight Research found in a January 2023 report that 20 percent of U.S. shoppers visit dollar stores for their grocery items.