Dollar General Stock Checker: Inventory, Pokemon & Restocks

Dollar General Stock Checker: Store Inventory, Pokemon & Restock Alerts

See how many units of a product each Dollar General store near any ZIP code has right now. For every product you get the nearby stores, nearest first: exact units on hand, in stock / low stock / out of stock, store number, address, distance, phone and hours, plus the price, sale price, rating and UPC. Search by keyword (pokemon, hot wheels, stanley cup), dollargeneral.com product link or UPC; check stores by ZIP code (up to 100 nearest stores each) or by store number.

Scheduled runs with Only report changes become Dollar General restock alerts: a row only when a store gets a product back, gets a delivery (units went up), sells out, the price changes, or a new product appears in your search (a new Pokemon or Hot Wheels release).

Use cases: track products & prices, get deal & restock alerts, build market datasets of Dollar General store inventory. No login, no browser: a Dollar General scraper and Dollar General inventory API that returns clean JSON, CSV or Excel.

What makes it different

🔢 Exact units per store	unitsInStock = how many the store has on hand (53, 4, 0), not just "in stock"
🏬 Every store near you at once	One request covers a product at up to 100 nearest stores to a ZIP code, nearest first, with distance in miles; or exact stores by number
🔔 Restock alerts with deliveries	back_in_stock, restocked (units went up), out_of_stock, price_drop, new_item, with restock history and the usual restock weekday of each store
🏷️ UPC lookup	Paste the UPC from the barcode: units at every nearby store
💲 Price, sale price, rating	Price and regular price when on sale, rating and reviews, category, SKU
🎴 Honest counts	Dollar General shows a placeholder 5 for a few products it does not count per store (Pokemon TCG packs, party goods): those rows say unitsTracked: false instead of a fake number

Example

Input: keyword pokemon, ZIP 37201 (downtown Nashville), 10 nearest stores. Real run, 14 Oct 2026:

Product	Store	Miles	Units
HERSHEY'S Milk Chocolate Pokemon Candy Bar, $1.90	#21334, 206 3rd Ave S, Nashville	0.7	53
HERSHEY'S Milk Chocolate Pokemon Candy Bar	#18252, 2034 West End Ave, Nashville	1.7	4
Deluxe Pokemon Set, $20	#13039, 1118 Dickerson Pike, Nashville	1.7	9
Deluxe Pokemon Set	#21334, 206 3rd Ave S, Nashville	0.7	0 (out of stock)
Pokemon Trainer Guess Legacy Edition, $20	#9188, 601 Gallatin Ave, Nashville	1.8	3
Pokemon Pikachu Plush 8 in, $12	all 10 stores	0.7-4.5	0

10 products × 10 stores = 100 rows in one run: the Pokemon candy bar was in all 10 stores, the Deluxe set in 8, the Trainer Guess game in 1, the plush in none.

Input

Field	What it does
What to do	Search products (keywords) or Check products (links or UPCs)
Keywords	e.g. pokemon, hot wheels, stanley cup, laundry detergent; searched in the catalog of the nearest store
Product links or UPCs	dollargeneral.com product links (…/p/hot-wheels-basic-play-car-assorted/27084412086) or UPC barcodes
ZIP codes	Stores around each ZIP code (37201), or latitude, longitude
Store numbers	Exact stores, e.g. 13141 (on the receipt or in the DG store locator)
Radius (miles), Stores per ZIP code	15 miles and 10 stores by default; up to 100 miles and 100 stores
Max products per search, Sort search by	Up to 500 products per keyword (24 per Dollar General page); best match or price low to high
Only in stock, Minimum units, Maximum price	Filters: you pay only for returned rows
Only report changes, Monitor name	Restock and drop alerts for scheduled runs

Output

Field	Example
title, upc, sku, category, categories	HERSHEY'S Milk Chocolate Pokemon, Candy Bar, 1.55 oz, 034000243822, 41917101, Candy & Gum
unitsInStock, stockStatus, inStockAtStore, unitsTracked	53, in_stock (low_stock, out_of_stock), true, true
storeNumber, storeAddress, storeCity, storeState, storeZip	21334, 206 3rd Ave S, Nashville, TN, 37201
distanceMiles, storePhone, storeHours, storeMapUrl	0.7, (629) 666-2999, 06:00-00:00 daily, Google Maps link
storeLatitude, storeLongitude, deliveryEligible	36.159, -86.774, true (DG Delivery from this store)
price, originalPrice	17.95; 19.95 = the regular price when on sale
rating, reviews, shipToHome, badges	4.8, 3087, false, SNAP
image, url	product image, dollargeneral.com product page
near, query, queryType	37201, the search or product the row came from
change, changes, previousUnits, previousPrice	restocked from 4 to 28 units, price_drop from 2.75 (monitoring)
restocksSeen, lastRestockAt, usualRestockDay	3, 2026-10-09T13:10:00Z, Thursday (2 of 3) (monitoring)

A bad UPC, or a ZIP code with no Dollar General store nearby, returns a row with error (free).

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.001 per run and $0.00039 per returned row: a product at a store ($0.39 per 1 000 rows). Apify Scale plan: 10% less on rows, Business plan and above: 20% less.

Example	Cost
10 products of a search at the 10 stores nearest to one ZIP	~$0.04
1 product at the 100 stores near a ZIP	~$0.04
Restock alert: 5 products near 2 ZIPs every 30 minutes, nothing changed	$0.001 per run (~$1.44 a month)

FAQ

How do I check Dollar General stock near me? Put your ZIP code into ZIP codes and the product into Keywords (or the product link or UPC into Check products). Each row is one nearby store with the units it has.

Is the number of units exact? It is the store's on-hand count that Dollar General's app uses for "in stock" and "low stock" at that store. Shelves move during the day, so a store with 1-2 units may be sold out when you arrive. For a few products Dollar General does not count per store (it shows 5 everywhere): those rows have unitsInStock: null and unitsTracked: false.

Can I check Pokemon cards at Dollar General? Yes: search pokemon to get Pokemon TCG packs, tins, plush, games and candy at every store near you. Pokemon TCG 15-card packs are one of the products Dollar General does not count per store, so you see whether the store carries them (in_stock), not how many.

Can I look up a Dollar General product by UPC? Yes: the UPC from the barcode in Check products returns the units at every nearby store. Add the dollargeneral.com product link instead to also get the name, price and rating.

How do I get Dollar General restock alerts? Add the products (or a search) and your ZIP codes, turn on Only report changes, save it as a task and schedule it every 30-60 minutes. Deliveries come as restocked (units went up) or back_in_stock, new products as new_item; connect email, Slack or Google Sheets in Integrations.

Is this a free Dollar General inventory checker app alternative? It checks every store near a ZIP code at once, without an account or the DG app, and runs on Apify's free plan within its monthly credit.

Tips

• Rows = products × stores, so start with a few stores and Only in stock or Minimum units.
• One request covers a product at up to 100 stores near a ZIP code: a wide radius costs no extra requests, only rows.
• For a watchlist, use Check products with product links: the same products every run, no search noise.
• Use a separate Monitor name for each scheduled task.

Limits

• US Dollar General stores only (dollargeneral.com).
• Searches run in the catalog of the store nearest to the first ZIP code (or the first store number); a product that store does not carry may be missing from the search, but a product link or UPC is checked at every store.
• Up to 100 stores per ZIP code or store number; use several ZIP codes for a wider area.

Ready-made tasks

Task	What it does
Dollar General Pokemon Stock Checker: Cards & Plush Near You	Pokemon cards, tins, plush and games at the Dollar General stores near your ZIP, units per store

Related

• Walgreens Stock Checker
• CVS Stock Checker
• Target Scraper: store stock with units
• Walmart Restock Tracker
• Barnes & Noble Stock Checker
• Best Buy Stock Checker: in-store inventory by ZIP
• GameStop Inventory Checker
• Sam's Club Stock Checker
• IKEA Stock Checker

For AI agents and API

{
    "mode": "products",
    "products": ["https://www.dollargeneral.com/p/hot-wheels-basic-play-car-assorted/27084412086", "034000243822"],
    "zipCodes": ["37201", "30084"],
    "maxStoresPerZip": 20,
    "onlyInStock": true,
    "onlyChanges": true,
    "monitorName": "dg-restock"
}

Each row is one product at one store with unitsInStock, stockStatus, distanceMiles and the store address.