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Eggs Just Got a Little Too Rich for Dollar Tree

Guess What Just Got
Yanked From Dollar Tree?

Mar 15, 2023 12:10 PM CDT

Guess What Just Got Yanked From Dollar Tree?

Seems eggs are a little too rich for discount chain's blood until at least the fall

(Newser) - If you need to pick up a dozen eggs and you're passing the local Dollar Tree, keep driving. As Reuters reports, the discount chain has announced that given the dizzying rise in egg prices , it's going to stop carrying eggs until the industry can get its act together...

Dollar Tree 'Help Wanted' Sign
Does Not Go Over Well

Dollar Tree 'Help Wanted' Sign Does Not Go Over Well

Manager out of a job after saying Gen Z'ers need not apply

(Newser) - A Dollar Tree manager whose "help wanted" sign went viral for the wrong reasons is now out of a job. The story is out of Bremen, Indiana, where WNDU reports that an apparently peeved manager posted the following message on his store's front door: "I apologize for...

Family Dollar Shuts Hundreds of Stores After Rat Infestation

'Unacceptable' Visitors
at Family Dollar Site
Lead to Closures, Recall

Feb 22, 2022 7:26 AM CST

'Unacceptable' Visitors at Family Dollar Site Lead to Closures, Recall

Rat infestation at Ark. distribution center forces 400-plus stores to close in South, product recall

(Newser) - Bad news if you're a regular at Family Dollar and you're in the South: Chances are, a location near you may be shuttered temporarily after a rat infestation at an Arkansas distribution warehouse. The Washington Post reports that 404 stores in six states—Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,...

Dollar Tree Announces
First Price Hike in 35 Years

Nov 23, 2021 3:13 PM CST

Dollar Tree Announces First Price Hike in 35 Years

Chain says new price point is $1.25

(Newser) - Dollar Tree has confirmed that its pricing is changing from "everything for $1" to "most things for $1.25." The company says the price hike is permanent and not a reaction to "short-term or transitory market conditions," MarketWatch reports, though analysts say inflation has clearly...

Inflation Forces
Dollar Tree to
'Break the Buck'

Sep 29, 2021 3:14 PM CDT

Inflation Forces Dollar Tree to 'Break the Buck'

Some items will now be $1.25 or $1.50

(Newser) - While the company isn't planning to change its name to "$1.50 Tree," Dollar Tree has heeded calls from investors to "break the buck" and raise prices for some items. Since its founding in 1986, when $1 was the equivalent of around $2.50 today, the...

Dollar Tree 'Quietly' Reverses Its Mask Mandate

As More Chains Require Masks,
2 Exceptions Make Headlines

Jul 20, 2020 4:53 PM CDT

As More Chains Require Masks, 2 Exceptions Make Headlines

Dollar Tree, Winn-Dixie won't mandate that customers wear them

(Newser) - On Friday, budget grocery store Aldi announced masks would be required to enter its stores as of July 27. Two other budget shops are moving in the other direction. USA Today reports Dollar Tree and Family Dollar—which both fall under the Dollar Tree, Inc., umbrella—have reversed course on...

Dollar General
Opens Bidding War

Aug 18, 2014 6:21 AM CDT

Dollar General Opens Bidding War

Makes $9.7B offer for Family Dollar, topping Dollar Tree's $8.5B bid

(Newser) - There's now a bidding war for Family Dollar, with Dollar General today offering about $9.7 billion for the discounter in an effort to trump Dollar Tree's $8.5 billion bid last month. Dollar General Corp. said today that it would pay $78.50 per share in cash,...

Dollar Tree
to Buy Family
Dollar for $8.5B

Jul 28, 2014 6:43 AM CDT

Dollar Tree to Buy Family Dollar for $8.5B

Combined chain will have triple the stores of Walmart

(Newser) - Dollar Tree is buying rival discount store Family Dollar in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $8.5 billion. Dollar Tree CEO Bob Sasser says the deal will give Dollar Tree more than 13,000 stores in the US and Canada. That is nearly three times as many stores as...