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- Bargain Retailer Gains Broaden, Solidify
- Picture this: Two women shopping in the home furnishings section of a Target store, clearly a mother and daughter, clearly setting up the younger woman’s first household. Well dressed and groomed, even if the jeans-clad daughter is more casual in style than her mother, they are a picture of middle-class...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Q&A: Nielsen Retail Analyst Expects Dollar Store Gains to Remain
- As the economy began its descent last year, dollar stores and related value retailers already were experiencing increased consumer spending, Nielsen Co. studies demonstrate, with high- and middle-income shoppers contributing in ways that suggest a significant alteration in shopping habits. In its research, Nielsen takes a broad...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- The New Normal Won't Emerge as a Walmart World
- The normal is upon us, but will the new normal be a Walmart world? A whole series of posts in this blog have discussed the recent Walmart WMT analyst meeting, and only covered the first 90 minutes of a two-day event and just detailed what the company...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
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- Wal-Mart tests 'dollar store' concept - Market Watch - merchandising effort - Brief Article
- BENTONVILLE, ARK. -- Discount retailer Wal-Mart is testing the waters of an in-store "dollar store," according to a Dow Jones report. The company reportedly has "a number" of stores that have such sections, including stores in Laredo, Texas, and Baltimore. The in-store "dollar store" is just one of several store-within-a-store...
- Research articles 2002-08-12
- First-ever Dollar Store Expo garners interest of big and small: Dollar store channel positions for further expansion, creates environment for sales to grow 10% per year - Market Watch - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
- CHICAGO -- Goods sold at low-priced values, combined with the convenience of a small store, adds up to a lethal competitive weapon in retailing. Therefore, it's no wonder that the dollar store, or extreme value niche, is the fastest-growing segment in retailing, with sales expected to grow 10% or more...
- Research articles 2002-06-10
- ACNielsen Expands Coverage of Fast-Growing Dollar Store Retail Channel; Release of Family Dollar Census-Based Sales Information Set for September
- SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- As part of its ongoing expansion of consumer packaged goods CPG industry sales coverage, ACNielsen U.S. today announced that census-based sales data for Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE:FDO) will be available beginning in September. The information will give Family Dollar vendors access to syndicated store-by-store insights into...
- Research articles 2005-08-31
- Family Dollar Store to Open in Grand Forks, N.D.
- By Rona K. Johnson, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 26--A grand opening for the Family Dollar Store in the Grand Cities Mall will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday. The Grand Forks store is the second in...
- Research articles 2003-02-26
- Small Discount-Store Owners Feel Heat as Chains Push into Dollar Store Market.
- By Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 13--The idea of class warfare among retailers who specialize in toothpaste, pencils and cheap trinkets may seem far-fetched, but there's a fierce battle raging among the nation's dollar store operators....
- Research articles 2003-06-13
- Forget Wal-Mart. What's your dollar store strategy? Collectively, they're growing bigger and faster than any other outlet. But food marketers need to carefully consider repackaging costs and the brand image of being in a discount store.(Cover Story)
- They have more storks and faster growth than Wal-Mart--with eight times as many outlets and a growing appetite for packaged food products. But the dollar store retail channel remains little understood and even less courted by the food industry. They have more storks and...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Save-A-Lot buys Deal$: Dollar store purchase to deliver extreme-value combo store - In the News - Brief Article
- ST. LOUIS -- In the aftermath of its acquisition of the Deal$ dollar store chain, Supervalus Save-A-Lot division will develop a new concept that combines that operation with its own extreme-value supermarket format. Supervalu's acquisition of the 45-unit Deal$ Nothing Over a Dollar chain, a retailer specializing in single...
- Research articles 2002-05-06
- Family Dollar Store's Stock Slides Despite Sales, Expansion Plan.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 15 -- Better-than-expected fourth-quarter sales and a quickened expansion plan haven't protected Family Dollar Store's stock from the beating investors are giving its largest competitor, Dollar General. Family Dollar's stock closed at $15.75 Tuesday, almost ...
- Research articles 1999-12-14
- Large Dollar-Store to Open in Charleston, S.C.-Area Shopping Center.
- By John P. McDermott, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 31--The dollar-store concept has been supersized in Ashley Landing shopping center. Magoo's Supercenter opens for business today in the former Condon's department store on Sam Rittenberg...
- Research articles 2001-03-31
- Out of the Dow and Into ... the Dollar Store?
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Dow Jones Indexes said yesterday that they are monitoring the Citigroup situation regarding its inclusion in the Dow Thirty 'closely.' Our question is what is there to watch? While most investors are focused on what 'clubs' (Dow Thirty,...
- External links 2009-03-06
- On the radar: dollar store growth forces other retail formats to take notice.
- "The fact is that consumers, whether affluent or lower income, look for deals. Some need deals and some like deals, but all consumers like or need to have deals." This relatively simple observation by David Bishop, director at Barrington, Ill.-based Willard Bishop Consulting, is much of...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Dollar Store Successfully Borrows Discount Concept.
- By Barbara Clements, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 24--After a career running big-box retail stores, Arlene and Gary Woodring weren't quite ready to retire 11 years ago. So they borrowed an idea from their friend Dave...
- Research articles 2003-02-24
- Supervalu to grow GM: chain to roll out supermarket/dollar store combo format - In the News - Brief Article
- MINNEAPOLIS -- In a first quarter financials announcement, Jeff Noddle, Supervalu chairman and ceo, revealed the company's strategy for introducing extreme value supermarket/dollar store combination units. The combo stores represent part of a key growth initiative for the distributor/retailer.
- Research articles 2002-07-29
- Dollar Store takes former Safeway
- After about a one-year delay in its plans, Lakewood, Wash.-based discount retail chain LOI Distributing Inc. has opened a Dollar Store outlet in a former Safeway Inc. supermarket building in Hillyard.
- Research articles 2004-06-03
- Berner Foods, Inc.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: DOLLAR STORE SUPPLIER DIRECTORY)
- Berner Foods is a market-leading supplier of quality food products including natural cheese, specialty performance cheese, processed cheese and soy beverages. Berner offers leading edge products to the supermarket, drug, mass merchandiser, club, dollar store, specialty food distributor, foodservice and contract manufacturing channels. Berner offers...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Family Dollar Poised for Store Growth
- Dollar-discount chain Family Dollar Stores might not have any major new store-opening plans in the works, at least that management is revealing, but the chain is certainly in a good position to expand. As some retailers close stores while others like Blockbuster flirt with outright failure, the Matthews, N.C.-based chain...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Dollar stores offer Beaumont, Texas, shoppers more bang for buck.
- By Dan Wallach, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 11--A Dollar Tree Stores Inc. outlet recently opened in the Gateway Shopping Center, replacing a Dollar General Store that closed, which is just to the south of a Family Dollar...
- Research articles 2004-07-11
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