Did a Dollar General Store post a sign saying a self-checkout station was closed "Due to Niggers"? No, that's not true: The actual sign shared on X by Jack Posobiec on May 15, 2025, read "Due to Dishonesty," but hours later another account posted a digitally-altered image that replaced "Dishonesty" with the N-word. The sign photo was originally published on X in January 2024, just before Dollar General confirmed it was ending the use self-checkout stations at several hundred U.S. stores because of theft.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) shared on X by @Real_Comfyfren on May 15, 2025. The caption above the image read "We need to start telling it how it is." The altered sign read:
Due to Niggers self-checkout is CLOSED
Sorry to all the honest people
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: screenshot of X.com by Lead Stories)
This is the actual post (archived here) by Posobiec:
(Source: screenshot of X.com by Lead Stories)
The @Real_Comfyfren acknowledged in the thread below the post that it was fake, writing "Yes i made it but its meant to be obviously fake."
(Source: screenshot of X.com by Lead Stories)
The U.S. edition of The Sun newspaper of Britain published a story about the Dollar General sign in January 2024, but the article did not identify the store's location.
