Some bias reporting in there. Family Dollar is also rebuilding stores and adding small markets with produceand meat. That doesn’t account for all 600 but a lot of them.
.........the dollar store I’ve become used to for buying basic stuff like diet coke, bread, butter, milk etc just remodeled, cleaned up the store dramatically, got all the merchandise put up (many isles were completely blocked with carts of merchandise because there were no stockers to put it up on the shelves) and so on. They added about 125’ of additional glass door type refrigerators and freezers.
Heck, it’s a pleasure to go in there now. And, it’s sort of funny because the store backs up to hundreds of million dollar houses in one of Texas’s biggest resorts so seeing bentleys and mercedes in the parking lot is a daily situation.
BETCHA those UNEMPLOYED people do NOT appear in weekly numbers.