At least their stocking stuffers probably aren't as insanely expensive as they are across the street

The checkout area is bog-standard discount store fare, with a long zig-zagging line filled with assorted impulse-buy racks -- enough that from here, just outside of the queue, you can hardly even see the checkout counter itself. And wow, there were certainly a lot of people waiting in that line, proof that a depressing store doesn't really mean anything for whether people shop there or not.