Dollar Tree is closing these 390 Family Dollar stores (which they bought), rebranding about 200 FD stores which is interesting...so, are we to see, that maybe Dollar Tree itself is not suffering in this economic climate as some seem to be implying?
I'm getting mixed signals on the story, Dollar Tree itself does not seem to be hurting. There is one here in a neighborhood and it must be like "the neighborhood store", people go for convenience, you don't have to weigh into more heavily travelled areas. It be candles, cleaning supplies, some canned food, a few frozen food products, candy which most people like once in a while and on down the line, they have a lot. The one in a neighborhood is a gold mine I think to myself. People are always in there almost until late in the day. There are not many other stores around and nothing that has that diverse selection.
But I disapprove of their opening up say on Thanksgiving or something. I know one of their stores was doing that, I thought, give the employees a break.
Family Dollar vs. the parent company, Dollar Tree:
One can read fairly often about these places being robbed ever so often.
And then, two other dollar stores I know of have reasonable traffic but that one really rakes in the business, because of it's sales in my estimation, I'm sure they get more business than the other two near me combined and easily at that.
Cheap holiday stuff, Hallmark even got a deal and they now sell Hallmark cards at dollar tee. I mean, who wants to pay $4.50 generally speaking for a birthday card?
It's amazing to me. The economy is booming and growing.... yet stores are closing as if we were back in the Obamanation Era, where the economy was deliberately smothered. I don't get it. 
Everyone should double check the story, Dollar Tree themselves are not closing stores, just the company Family Dollar that they own.
I don't know if it changes the economic analysis. Maybe slightly.
