8 Items You Can Get a Lot Cheaper at Dollar Tree Than on Amazon

It’s tough to cite Dollar Tree as the best retailer for saving money these days. While the discount retailer is famously known for its $1.25 pricing, an increasing number of online marketplaces — such as Amazon — are selling the same items for less. For some shoppers, this may be enough to make them believe Dollar Tree no longer has the cheapest prices. 

The savviest shoppers, however, know Dollar Tree is still cheaper to shop than Amazon for many essentials. Here are eight items you can buy from Dollar Tree that cost a lot less.

• Price: $1.25

It pays to shop Crayola finger paint soap at Dollar Tree. Amazon carries the same soaps in a five-count variety pack for $11. This breaks down to spending $2.20 each on Amazon — nearly $1 more than Dollar Tree’s low pricing.

• Price: $1.25

Both Dollar Tree and Amazon sell 50-count canisters of Biopure antibacterial hand wipes, but shoppers pay $5.25 on Amazon. That puts $4 back into the pockets of Dollar Tree shoppers.

• Price: $1.25

Amazon has largely cornered the market on cheap movie theater candy, with the exception of Buncha Crunch. 

Shoppers who find this sweet treat at their local Dollar Trees will be rewarded knowing a 3.2-ounce box costs $5.99 on Amazon. And that’s at its current sale price — each box typically retails for $7.68.

• Price: $3

The Play-Doh super silver pack is part of Dollar Tree’s More Choices collection, which is priced at $3 on up for higher-end products. 

Slight price uptick aside, it’s much cheaper compared to Amazon, where the same six-count set of Play-Doh retails for $9.47.

• Price: $1.25

Shoppers save much more money on Irish Spring soaps buying them at Dollar Tree than they may realize. 

A set of two original scent soaps regularly costs $7.19 on Amazon — and even the 17% discount, bringing the total spend to $5.97, is pretty pricey.

• Price: $1.25

We’ve previously found composition books elsewhere that are cheaper than Dollar Tree, so we were curious to know whether Amazon had bested this price or not. 

The answer is no since their composition notebooks retail for $3.19 apiece. That’s a $1.94 difference — and every penny adds up when starting back-to-school shopping.

• Price: $1.75

The holiday season will be here before you know it, and it makes more financial sense to buy Reynolds foil wrap at Dollar Tree than it does on Amazon. 

While it’s true that this wrap has gone up in price at Dollar Tree (we remember when it was $1.25 in 2024), that’s still nowhere near the amount Amazon is charging for it. Expect to pay $8.92 for one 15-foot roll.

• Price: $1.25

UNO cards are a game night staple. Why pay $5.52 for a box of pocket-sized cards when you could pay $1.25? Dollar Tree’s prices make it possible to buy up to four decks for the cost of one on Amazon.

Editor’s note: Prices and availability are accurate as of July 10, 2025, and are subject to change.