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TYLER, Texas — The Tyler Police Department released body camera footage showing the moment a police officer’s gun discharged during a struggle with a suspect, KLTV reported. According to the department, officers responded to a reported theft at a Dollar General on May 11. Two suspects fled the scene on foot. One was detained without incident. The second allegedly refused to comply with commands and continued trying to flee. An arrest affidavit states that the suspect twisted away from the officer’s grasp and began to run before tripping. A struggle ensued on the ground in which she allegedly thrashed and...

Deputy Will May, who volunteered for overtime Wednesday, fought for his life after being shot during a routine disturbance call at Dollar General. A Walton County sheriff’s deputy has died from injuries sustained in a shooting outside a Dollar General store in Mossy Head on Wednesday afternoon. * Sheriff Michael Adkinson announced during an evening press conference that Deputy Will May succumbed to his wounds at approximately 7:10 p.m. after doctors spent four hours trying to save his life at North Okaloosa Medical Center. “Will fought the entire time…from returning fire to fighting for his own life,” Adkinson said. The...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris repeatedly say they want to help the poor and middle classes but their policies, which caused inflation to soar, have absolutely destroyed the dollar’s purchasing power. People can no longer afford to patronize the establishments they’ve always patronized, because they are living paycheck-to-paycheck, have already depleted their savings, and have run up credit card debt to unsustainable levels—and these chains are falling like dominos. Now, Big Lots is the latest casualty, and preparing for bankruptcy: ... Dollar Tree and Dollar General are also facing significant headwinds. ... Inflation has significantly risen because of direct actions...

Dollar General's stock plunged nearly 30% after it reported worse-than-expected quarterly results. It's a sign of how dire things have become for low-income shoppers. It also challenges a widely held assumption about dollar stores. Things are getting worse for US consumers, and Dollar General is suffering as a result. The dollar store chain reported second-quarter comparable sales below analysts' expectations on Thursday. Dollar General also cut its sales growth expectations for the rest of the year, warning that its low-income customers have pulled back spending — and that things could get even worse. The quarter included a "weaker sales environment...

A Dollar General in Pflugerville, TX, was the scene of a vicious bout of "transphobia," at least according to a recent TikTok post making that charge. In the video, which was reposted by several larger right-wing accounts, you can see one of the employees of the store being confronted by a feminine-sounding man who is flinging accusations of being misgendered. Things just get more hilarious from there. Trans person harasses worker for “misgendering.” It’s all a narcissistic power trip.pic.twitter.com/HihJ1WXQgZ— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 22, 2024It's the guy's facial expressions that make his reaction solid gold. This is one of...

They were introduced as a way to cut lines, boost efficiency in store and reduce staffing numbers - and boomed in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic. But is the self checkout falling out of favor with big-name retailers? In recent weeks, Dollar General, Target and Walmart have all announced sweeping changes to automated registers in stores across the US. Experts say the rollback is linked, mostly, to fears around theft - as it is much easier for customers to shoplift items at the self checkout rather than a checkout with a cashier. But retailers say they are also trying to...

GOP presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday directed $1 million to bolster security at a historically Black college near the site of what authorities deemed a racially motivated shooting that killed three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville over the weekend. The governor also pledged $100,000 to help the families of those shooting victims. The announcement comes a day after DeSantis was met with boos at a Jacksonville vigil for the victims Sunday. "Also, per the request at yesterday's vigil, we're able to do $100,000 to the charity that is supporting the victims families," DeSantis added....

All three victims were Black, and the suspect detailed a "disgusting ideology of hate" in writings...The gunman was armed with an AR-15-style rifle...a white man in his early 20s...The sheriff shared photos of the guns used in the shooting, one of which appeared to have swastikas on it...The incident is being investigated by the FBI as a hate crime...Ron DeSantis: "This shooting based on the manifesto that they discovered from the scumbag that did this was racially motivated"

Multiple people have been shot dead at a Florida Dollar General store in Northwest Jacksonville after an armed suspect barricaded himself inside the store. Emergency services, including a SWAT team, rushed to the scene on Kings Road, Northwest Jacksonville, at around 1pm on Saturday. Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan confirmed there are 'a number of fatalities' following the incident, which saw the shooter barricade himself inside. It is believed the shooter is now dead, although it's unclear if he was taken out by police, or killed himself.

Doorbell footage captured the moment a supposed Dollar General worker plowed her car into a man who was allegedly fleeing after having stolen from her store. The incident, which happened on May 11 at around 11.20am, shows the man on a bicycle cruising along a sidewalk in Fresno, California, when suddenly a woman driving a white Honda, said to be a Dollar General employee by the owner of the camera, swerved into the man and knocked him off his bike.

MONROE, La. (KNOE/Gray News) - Police arrested a clerk at a Louisiana Dollar General and charged him with manslaughter after they said he shot at an armed robber. The Monroe Police Department said officers responded to the Dollar General store Monday for a shooting. An armed robbery reportedly took place, and the store clerk shot at the suspect. KNOE reports the suspect and another customer were shot. Police said the armed robbery suspect was found lying in a pile of money he allegedly took from the store. He was taken by an ambulance and later died from his injuries. The...

A Dollar General store clerk in Monroe, Louisiana, shot and killed an alleged armed robber Monday and was subsequently charged with manslaughter. FOX News reported Monday’s robbery made six times the store had been targeted since August. The News Star noted clerk Rafus Anderson shot the alleged robber Monday, and police found the suspect collapsed and “lying on the money he had taken from the store.” Anderson told police he feared for his life and shot at the suspect but was not sure he hit him “because he continued to run.”

DELAND, Fla. - A Florida Dollar General employee has been arrested for allegedly pouring bleach into his co-worker's drink after an argument. Jerome Ellis, a DeLand Dollar General employee was arrested on charges of poisoning food or water and tampering with evidence after video surveillance showed Ellis pouring bleach into his co-worker's can of Pepsi on Monday, an arrest affidavit states. Ellis and the victim reportedly got into an argument the day before, and the victim told police he believed Ellis was holding a grudge against him, deputies said. The man told deputies he placed a Pepsi he was drinking...

Getting more bang for your buck used to be the mantra of dollar store shoppers everywhere, but times are changing - and prices are rising. As consumers continue to contend with escalating prices for food, clothing and other items thanks to inflation, discount retail chains like dollar stores are rethinking their pricing strategies. Dollar Tree announced last month that it will be boosting prices to $1.25 for most of its products. And now Dollar General is looking to roll out more of its Popshelf stores, where most items cost $5 or less. Dollar General said Thursday that it anticipates nearly...

Kyle Dishman can't afford to shop at the local grocery store anymore. Instead he goes to Dollar General, where he can make $40 stretch into a week's worth of groceries and the occasional can of motor oil for his Chrysler 300. He sticks with pasta, frozen pizza and canned vegetables, fully aware that "any food you can buy for only $1 is not the greatest for you." But Dishman says prices have gone up so much that he's started rationing his food. "When you only have a certain amount to spend, it's like, why not just go to the dollar...

In the latest fraud-related news, two women in Tennessee were caught trying to pay for items using a fake $1 million bill earlier this month. According to WREG Memphis, the incident occurred at a Dollar General store in Maryville, a suburb of Knoxville. The two women reportedly tried using the bill to pay for numerous gift cards, and, when confronted, they claimed they not to have known the bill was fraudulent.

The debate about “reopening the economy” is a phony debate. It’s phony because “the economy” isn’t shut down. Far from it. Walmart is still open. Dollar General is open. Amazon is open. Alibaba is open. It just so happens that the big-box mass merchandisers and online retailers responsible for flooding our country with crap from Communist China are open. Meanwhile, other, very specific parts of the country are shut down. Family-owned shops and workshops, the backbone of America, are closed. Fast-food franchises remain open—drive-through windows are operating at full tilt—but independently owned restaurants are shuttered or trying to survive at...

WVNS) — Dollar General Corporation announced plans to dedicate the first hour of each shopping day to seniors. Dollar General will also adjust its store hours beginning on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Dollar General is doing this in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. According the release, Dollar General wants to provide these at-risk customers with the ability to purchase items at the beginning of each day to avoid busier and more crowded shopping periods. Other customers will be allowed to shop after this time period. In addition, all stores plan to close one hour earlier than their current closing time....

TARRS, Pennsylvania -- Five years ago, the plot of land where the Dollar General store sits on Glades Pike was just that: a plot of pastoral greenery located near a row of neatly kept homes in an unincorporated village that once briefly boomed as a coal town. The store's familiar yellow sign with bold, all-capitalized black letters sits slightly back from rolling Pennsylvania Route 31, which runs parallel to both the turnpike and the Lincoln Highway. For many people in the area, the store serves as a quick stop for a forgotten grocery staple or deeply discounted household goods. These...

The village of Nice, Calif., has a name pronounced “Neece,” like the city on the French Riviera, and it sits on a strip of land wedged dramatically between steep hills and the shores of Clear Lake. This was resort country a century ago, but tourists are scarce these days and the surrounding county is now among the poorest in the state, when measured by median income. A perfect place, in other words, for a cinderblock Dollar General store, which now straddles Highway 20, a two-minute walk from the gazebo that marks the village center. When it opened back in 2015,...