21 Things Never to Buy at a Dollar Store
The dollar store is a bastion of low-priced goodies and deals—except, sometimes, it’s not really worth the rock-bottom prices ...
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Family Dollar’s Uncertain Future Reflects Growing Consumer Price Sensitivity
This is just a tiny glimpse of the data available to CivicScience clients. Discover more data. Dollar Tree’s decision to sell ...
Arizona shoppers are regularly overcharged by retailers, inspectors say. Here’s why
Check your receipts. Nearly half of all inspections found stores overcharging Arizona customers, and the state only has 13 inspectors on the job.
Price check: Why do prices vary for similar products at grocery stores in the same area?
After posting the initial Price Check story, one reader sent an email to the BND stating that in the same week, there was a $1 price difference for eggs between Aldi stores in Belleville and Swansea ...
Dollar Tree selling Family Dollar, adding stores, attracting higher-income shoppers
Dollar Tree is selling off its Family Dollar stores. Meanwhile, Dollar Tree is seeing increased demand among higher-income ...
Full List of Stores Closing in April
Closures are happening across several shopping verticals as brick-and-mortar sales remain down for many companies.
Discount stores were thriving. How did they stumble?
Discount "dollar stores" were booming not so long ago, reaching into small towns and urban neighborhoods across the country.
Record Charlotte area grocery sales topped $10.4B last year. One store was clear favorite
Matthews, NC-based grocery store chain Harris Teeter is the runner-up behind retail giant Walmart capturing the grocery ...
Cuba resurrects dollar-only stores, a symbol of inequality
In communist Cuba, some customers are more equal than others, as a 40-year-old math teacher who was out shopping recently in ...
Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar after a decade together. Here's why it didn't work.
Roughly a decade ago, both Dollar Tree Inc. and archrival Dollar General Corp. were bidding for Family Dollar as the rapidly growing dollar-chain industry opened lots of new stores. When Dollar Tree ...
Dollar General accelerated rapid NC opening pace last year, despite downtown Raleigh exit
Subtracting from its growth, however, is the empty former Dollar General storefront in the center of Raleigh. In December, ...