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  • Family Dollar to host Open Buy Day for household, HBC, GM, food and pet suppliers

    MATTHEWS, N.C. — Family Dollar, in an effort to meet new potential branded and private-brand suppliers, is holding two Open Buy Days at its headquarters here in October. The first segment of the Open Buy Day, for household cleaning, paper, general merchandise and health and beauty care, will be held Oct. 19. The second segment will follow this on Oct. 26 for the food, beverage and pet categories.

  • Nielsen expands relationship with Family Dollar

    NEW YORK — Nielsen announced Wednesday that it has expanded its relationship with Family Dollar as the architect and exclusive provider of Family Dollar's Trading Area and custom product hierarchy.  

  • Study: DIR fees, MACs are biggest concerns for rural pharmacists

    IOWA CITY, Iowa — Direct and indirect remuneration fees and delayed maximum allowable cost adjustment ranked highest on scales of both magnitude and immediacy for rural pharmacists, according to new research released by the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis.

  • Report: FTC approves sale of 323 Dollar Express stores to Dollar General

    GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. — The Federal Trade Commission approved the sale of 323 Dollar Express stores to Dollar General, reported Reuters. Private equity firm Sycamore Partners II currently owns the Dollar Express stores, which it bought in 2015 when Dollar Tree was forced to sell stores in 35 states as a condition of its acquisition of Family Dollar.

  • Dollar General to acquire 323 Dollar Express stores

    GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. — Dollar General will acquire all 323 Dollar Express discount stores in 36 states from its owner, private equity firm Sycamore Partners, the company confirmed to several media outlets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

    The Dollar Express stores, which still carry the Family Dollar moniker, will be rebranded to Dollar General. The 323 stores comprise most of the 330 stores sold to Sycamore in order to meet federal antitrust approval of Dollar Tree’s acquisition of Family Dollar in 2015. 

  • Dollar Tree posts $5.6B in sales to cap a busy fiscal 2016

    Higher customer spending and lower costs help drive better-than-expected fourth quarter sales and profit at Dollar Tree.
     
    The discounter’s solid quarterly performance capped a year in which it opened 584 new stores and exceeded $20 billion in sales. 
     
    Dollar Tree reported net sales of $5.64 billion for the quarter ended Jan. 28, up 5.0% from $5.37 billion in the year-ago period.
     

  • Former Walmart chief merchant named Family Dollar COO

    CHESAPEAKE, Va.  — Dollar Tree and its Family Dollar subsidiary on Thursday added former Walmart chief merchant Duncan Mac Naughton to the team and promoted Dollar Tree president and COO Gary Philbin to the role of enterprise president.

  • CBS News tackles the omnichannel retailer's dilemma

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