Dollar General Penny List and Clearance Markdowns Drop March 10, 2026

Dollar General's penny list for the week of March 10, 2026 brings a wide spread of home goods and refrigerated food items down to a single cent at participating stores, alongside percentage-off markdowns on apparel and socks. The catch, as always, is that none of these prices are live until Tuesday — and verifying them is entirely on the shopper, not the staff.

What the penny list actually is

Before diving into the items, it helps to understand the mechanism. As The Krazy Coupon Lady explains it: "The Dollar General Penny List is a list of the specific items that will ring up for $0.01 at Dollar General this week (if you're able to find the items still on shelves, that is). Penny items are actually mistakes. They're products that Dollar General has marked down to $0.01 so that store employees know to remove them from the shelves."

That framing matters for everyone in the store. These items are not sale events engineered for shoppers — they are internal inventory signals that a savvy segment of the customer base has learned to exploit before employees pull the products. The result is a weekly ritual that plays out across Dollar General's roughly 20,000 locations, with varying degrees of friction between shoppers and associates.

How to check prices before you assume

The Freebie Guy is direct on timing: "Remember, prices aren't confirmed until verified in stores — items won't ring up for a penny or at new discounts until Tuesday." The practical tool for verification is the Dollar General app. The Freebie Guy's tip: "Download and update the Dollar General app to use the price scanner (upper right corner) to check item prices." Scanning the UPC in the app before heading to the register is the fastest way to confirm whether a specific item at your specific location has been marked down, since inventory and markdown rollout can vary by store.

This week's markdowns: apparel and accessories

Two clearance markdown categories are confirmed for March 10, 2026. Items tagged with a Gray Dot designation — covering apparel and accessories — are marked 50% off. Red Triangle Socks are also marked at 50% off. These are not penny items; they are standard clearance discounts signaled by Dollar General's internal color-coded tag system. If you see those tags, the discount should ring up automatically at the register.

Penny items: home and entertainment

The home and entertainment category carries the longest penny list this week. The following items, with their UPCs, are reported as penny candidates for March 10, 2026. Scan each one in the app to confirm before committing:

• Bowl Mint, 10 in — UPC: 085081548191
• 2-Tier Basket Black Metal, 1 ct — UPC: 430001867430
• Anchor Gravy Boat Glass, 1 ct — UPC: 076440969344
• Bowl Black White, 2 ct — UPC: 786460952423
• Bowl Set White Oval, 8 in 4 ct — UPC: 786460151581
• Bowl Set Oval Point, 2 ct — UPC: 786460151574
• Butter Dish Bee Sweet, 1 ct — UPC: 786460946163
• Butter Dish Blue White, 1 ct — UPC: 840104935590
• Butter Dish Embossed, 1 ct — UPC: 840104937983
• Butter Dish Pink, 1 ct — UPC: 430001887919
• Butter Dish Strawberry, 1 ct — UPC: 840104967447
• Butter Dish White Embossed, 1 ct — UPC: 430001858384
• Cake Plate Glass, 1 ct — UPC: 886466519986
• Cake Stand Spots, 1 ct — UPC: 430001635107
• Cheese Board Knife Set, 1 ct — UPC: 810054109501

The butter dish category alone runs six variations this week, from the Bee Sweet style to embossed and pink options, suggesting a broader kitchenware clearance push. The Anchor Gravy Boat Glass and the Cake Stand Spots round out a group that skews heavily toward tabletop and entertaining pieces — likely post-holiday inventory still working its way through the system.

Penny items: food and refrigerated goods

The food penny list this week includes refrigerated and perishable items, which adds a layer of complexity that Kristie May of Kristie's Connections addresses directly in her shopper guidance (more on that below). Confirmed food penny items with UPCs include:

• Dannon Yogurt Oreos, 6 oz — UPC: 046675000808
• Dole Juice Blends Peach Mango, 52 oz — UPC: 048500206829
• Eckrich Cocktail Sausage, 14 oz — UPC: 027815301009
• Eckrich Cocktail Bratwurst, 14 oz — UPC: 027815021013
• Eckrich Turkey Sausage Smoked, 12 oz — UPC: 027815300514
• El Mexicano Crema Mexicana Sour Cream, 15 oz — UPC: 042743123080
• El Mexicano Casero Queso Fresco Whole Milk Cheese, 10 oz — UPC: 042743123295
• El Mexicano Panela Queso Whole Milk Cheese, 10 oz — UPC: 042743013039
• El Mexicano Oaxaca Queso Cheese, 10 oz — UPC: 042743013052
• El Mexicano Saborico Drinkable Yogurt Guava, 7 oz — UPC: 042743125527
• El Mexicano Saborico Drinkable Yogurt Strawberry, 7 oz — UPC: 042743125510
• El Mexicano Saborico Drinkable Yogurt Pina Colada, 7 oz — UPC: 042743125541

The El Mexicano presence is notable: six products across the brand's cheese and drinkable yogurt lines are on the list, along with three Eckrich sausage and bratwurst varieties. The 52-ounce Dole Peach Mango Juice Blends rounds out a food list that is heavier on refrigerated and specialty items than a typical week.

Bath runners

Four bath runner colorways also appear as penny candidates this week, with UPCs provided for in-store scanning:

• Bath Runner Pink, 1 ct — 885830147237
• Bath Runner Olivine, 1 ct — 885830147282
• Bath Runner Bridal Rose, 1 ct — 885830147473
• Bath Runner Ensign Blue, 1 ct — 885830147206

The employee question: a workplace note

Kristie May, who publishes the penny list under her Kristie's Connections platform and trademarked PennyVision system, is unusually explicit in her shopper guidance this week — and it speaks directly to what store associates deal with on penny list days. Her posted rules are worth quoting in full:

"Do not ask Dollar General employees about penny items."

"Do not call the store about penny items."

"PLEASE, do not make a mess of the store and be kind to the staff."

"If the penny list contains food/beverage/medication that are expired items, the employees DO NOT HAVE TO SELL THEM TO YOU. Please do not argue with them about this."

The emphasis on expired food items is particularly relevant this week given the volume of perishable products on the penny list. When refrigerated items like the El Mexicano cheeses or Eckrich sausages hit $0.01, it is frequently because they are at or past their sell-by date — products the store is supposed to remove, not sell. Dollar General has not issued a public corporate statement clarifying official employee obligations in these situations, but Kristie's guidance aligns with a general understanding in the penny-shopping community: associates are not obligated to complete a transaction on expired goods, and pressing them to do so is a losing argument that makes a difficult retail job harder.

The underlying tension here is structural. Dollar General stores are often lightly staffed, and penny-list days create a predictable surge of customers hunting specific SKUs while associates are trying to manage inventory pulls, customer flow, and regular operations simultaneously. The community norm — scan it yourself, do not ask, do not call, do not make a mess — is an informal pressure-release valve that the broader penny-shopping ecosystem has developed precisely because the alternative creates real friction for store workers.

A note on sourcing and verification

All UPCs and product listings in this article come from aggregated penny-list sources and require in-store verification. Penny items may not be available at every location, and availability depends on whether items are still on shelves before employees remove them. Kristie's Connections explicitly prohibits republication of its images; the product and UPC data referenced here is drawn from publicly available penny-list aggregators. The full item lists from each source contain additional products beyond what is excerpted here, so scanning the Dollar General app price scanner remains the most reliable confirmation method for any specific item at your store.