Dawn Platinum beats the dollar store stuff and it is not even close
I grabbed a bottle of the Dollar Tree brand to save a few bucks and by the end of one sink of greasy pans my hands were trashed and the grease just smeared around. Went back to Dawn Platinum at $4.50 a bottle and the same stack of dishes came clean in half the time with no film left behind. The cheap stuff is not a budget find, it is a trap when you have to use twice as much. What is your actual cutoff price before you just buy the good one?