Most sales at Family Dollar, 99-cent stores for food

Dumpster diving will be the next step down for middle-class Americans. Maybe behind the Dollar Store. They can charge a fee for it.

The rise of the dollar store – catering to a disappearing middle class with shrinking incomes has made dollar stores prosper in the last decade. In last decade Family Dollar grew by 62 percent in store count while U.S. population only went up by 8 percent.

Posted by mybudget360 | July 20, 2011

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