Relevant:
- United States of Dollar Stores -- dollar stores see a rise in households making $70,000
- Rival Bids for Family Dollar Stores as Retailers Fight to Sell to Working Poor
- Standard of living, meet falling US dollar -- how a falling US dollar benefits banks at the expense of working Americans.
- Dollar stores are everywhere. Cities call it a plague and fight back.
- Austerity nation – 45 million Americans on food assistance programs. Americans shopping at discount dollar stores confronting the realities of a shrinking dollar and disappearing middle class.
2013-02-18 — mybudget360.com
At the same time if you invested in Family Dollar or 99 Cent Stores in the last five years your investment would have gone up 200 to 170 percent (while the S&P 500 was down 4 percent over this time). There is a big difference between living and investing in the dollar store economy. The issue is that many more Americans are ending up in it.
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