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Dollar Tree looking at options for Family Dollar, including possible sale of the segment
Read full article: Dollar Tree looking at options for Family Dollar, including possible sale of the segmentDiscount retailer Dollar Tree says it’s looking at strategic options for the Family Dollar stores that it owns, including a possible sale of the segment.
Nearly 200 shuttered 99 Cents Only stores to open as Dollar Tree locations from Texas to California
Read full article: Nearly 200 shuttered 99 Cents Only stores to open as Dollar Tree locations from Texas to CaliforniaDiscount retailer Dollar Tree is planning to reopen some 99 Cents Only stores that have closed, rebranding them and filling them with their own products.
Dollar Tree to close nearly 1,000 stores, posts surprise fourth quarter loss
Read full article: Dollar Tree to close nearly 1,000 stores, posts surprise fourth quarter lossDollar Tree will close nearly 1,000 stores and swung to a surprise fourth quarter loss as the discount retailer took a related $1.07 billion goodwill impairment charge.
Nationwide burglary group targeting Family Dollar safes in Harris County
Read full article: Nationwide burglary group targeting Family Dollar safes in Harris CountyEight suspects are currently facing criminal charges for breaking into and stealing safes from Family Dollar stores across metro Houston.
Man who killed 3 at a Dollar General in Jacksonville used to work at a dollar store, sheriff says
Read full article: Man who killed 3 at a Dollar General in Jacksonville used to work at a dollar store, sheriff saysThe Jacksonville sheriff says the gunman who killed three people at a Dollar General used to work at a dollar store and had stopped in at one before a security guard’s presence apparently led him elsewhere.
Dollar Tree and Family Dollar agree to take steps to improve worker safety at the bargain stores
Read full article: Dollar Tree and Family Dollar agree to take steps to improve worker safety at the bargain storesU.S. regulators have announced a settlement with the company that runs Dollar Tree and Family Dollar aimed at improving worker safety at thousands of the bargain stores across the country.
Family Dollar clerk shot in leg by robbery suspects in north Houston, HPD says
Read full article: Family Dollar clerk shot in leg by robbery suspects in north Houston, HPD saysA clerk at a Family Dollar in north Houston is recovering after being shot by robbery suspects Monday, officers with the Houston Police Department said.
Family demands justice after video appears to show Houston police repeatedly punching handcuffed suspect
Read full article: Family demands justice after video appears to show Houston police repeatedly punching handcuffed suspectKeuindarius St. Julien was arrested Wednesday night, but it’s what allegedly happened leading up to the handcuffs being put on that has his family and witnesses in an uproar demanding justice.
FULL LIST: See hundreds of Family Dollar products recalled due to improper temperature storage
Read full article: FULL LIST: See hundreds of Family Dollar products recalled due to improper temperature storageFamily Dollar is recalling hundreds of products that were stored and shipped “outside of labeled temperature requirements,” according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Accused robbers shoot Family Dollar store clerk in northeast Houston, police say
Read full article: Accused robbers shoot Family Dollar store clerk in northeast Houston, police sayHouston police are investigating after they said a store clerk was shot by a robber at a Family Dollar store in northeast Houston Wednesday.
VIDEO: Repeat shoplifter throws fit -- and several items of clothing -- while robbing Family Dollar store
Read full article: VIDEO: Repeat shoplifter throws fit -- and several items of clothing -- while robbing Family Dollar storePolice are searching for a man who threw a fit -- and several items of clothing -- while robbing a Family Dollar store in Houston’s Acres Homes area.
Food giveaway organized after Jim’s Supermarket burns down
Read full article: Food giveaway organized after Jim’s Supermarket burns downWhen Jim’s Supermarket burned down on Friday, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee said she knew it would hurt families here. She helped organize a food giveaway with the Houston Food Bank and is working to secure federal funding to help Jim’s rebuild. Residents told KPRC 2 the food giveaway will help them for a little bit because Jim’s is now gone. Karen Hunyh, whose family owns Jim’s Supermarket, was at the giveaway with other family members. Congresswoman Lee said to help, she is calling on food truck owners to come set up shop near Jim’s to help community members with food availability.
Family Dollar’s alarm, strobe light terrorizing Houston neighborhood for a week
Read full article: Family Dollar’s alarm, strobe light terrorizing Houston neighborhood for a weekHOUSTON – Police are checking into an alarm glitch at a northwest Houston business. Every night for the past week, Maria Aguirre said sirens and strobe lights are coming from the Family Dollar on Bingle Road. “We’ve been tortured for a week,” Aguirre said. The story has changed every day.”Aguirre said she has also contacted city hall, the Harris County Attorney’s Office and Houston police. Aguirre said the incessant alarm and the strobe lights beaming through her bedroom window is taking a toll mentally.