We may cost a buck from the box but we don’t put out dollar store journalism.
2015, LuBrenda Turner, Love and War in the Concrete Jungle: No Inhibitions...No Regrets, unnumbered page:
“Listen Romeo, you can sell your dollar store philosophy of a woman's worth to someone who gives a damn. As for me, I can care less.”
2016, Melodie Campbell, The Goddaughter Caper, page 77:
What long-ago sadist decided that gift bows should be made into a freaking hat? Every woman in this room could have afforded the plane fare to Paris, France, just to pick out a new chapeau. Yet here they were, making me wear a bunch of dollar-store bows on my head.
I imagined that if you bought dollar store-quality condoms you'd need dollar store-quality pregnancy tests
2021, Dav Adsett, "Congratulations due", The Wellington Advertiser, 28 April 2021:
The odd time there may be a few minutes or part of a day slip away depending on immediate duties at the time, but what our readers can always expect is quality reporting – not dollar store journalism where thorough coverage takes a back seat to volume, speed and click counts.
