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Family Dollar Launches New Partnership With Uber Eats. Here Are the Details

Family Dollar has announced a new partnership with Uber Eats, offering its clientele a unique delivery option for everyday essentials. This news came shortly after the discount store announced that its parent company had sold it for $1 billion. Let’s look at what we know about this newest partnership. Family Dollar Now Available on Uber […]
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Family Dollar Partners with Uber Eats for Delivery from 5,000 Locations Nationwide

Family Dollar will now offer its products on the Uber Eats platform, allowing shoppers to access on-demand or scheduled deliveries from more than 5,000 Family Dollar stores across the country. The discount retailer offers a wide range of everyday items including cleaning supplies, pantry staples, beauty and baby care products. To mark the launch, Uber […]
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Dollar Tree Hires Next Finance Chief

Dollar Tree has found its new Chief Financial Offer. Starting March 30, 2025, Stewart Glendinning will take the role after initially joining the company in a senior role to support Dollar Tree’s enterprise-wide transformation. Earlier this year, Glendinning supported key initiatives within the company’s finance organization and helped review and establish strategic alternatives for the […]
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Dollar Tree Removes ‘Interim’ from CEO Title for Creedon

Dollar Tree has named Michael Creedon Jr. as its CEO on a permanent basis. Creedon was named Interim CEO after previous CEO Rick Dreiling, citing health issues, stepped down in early November. Creedon had joined Dollar Tree as COO in 2022 following nearly a decade in leadership roles at Advance Auto Parts. Michael Creedon Jr. […]
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Family Dollar Selects AI-Powered Solution to Enhance Category Management

Family Dollar will use solutions from Dunnhumby to make merchandising and category management more customer-centric across its store network. Dunnhumby will use customer data science as well as consumer-led insights and collaboration to help Family Dollar make merchandising decisions that drive greater engagement with the retailer’s 66 million shoppers. The Family Dollar platform will be […]
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  1. Channel: Dollar/Value

Divesting Family Dollar mulled by Dollar Tree

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Dollar Tree Inc. has launched a review of “strategic alternatives” for its beleaguered Family Dollar unit, including “a potential sale, spin-off or other disposition of the business.” The announcement comes as Dollar Tree confronts a changing economic environment that has prompted a portfolio review. Company executives have identified some 600 Family Dollar […]
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Store closings are up significantly

NEW YORK — Ahold Delhaize recently said it would shutter an undetermined number of underperforming Stop & Shop supermarkets this year, joining what some press reports have described as a “tsunami” of planned retail store closings. Coresight Research, which tracks store openings and closings, said that as of May 31, major U.S. retailers have announced […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

MMR honors ‘Most Influential Women’ of 2024

MMR held an event in New York this week to honor Mass Market Retailing’s Most Influential Women of 2024. The retail honorees who attended included Alisa Dart of Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, Lindsay Knoop of Hy-Vee, Jocelyn Konrad of Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, Jennifer Lambert of Hy-Vee, Jill Pavlovich of Albertsons, Bonita Price of Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, […]
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Dollar Tree exploring spin off or sale of Family Dollar

CHESAPEAKE, Va. – Dollar Tree Inc. has launched a review of “strategic alternatives” for its beleaguered Family Dollar unit, including “a potential sale, spin off or other disposition of the business.” The announcement comes as Dollar Tree confronts a challenging economic environment for deep discounters, prompting an ongoing portfolio review. As part of that review, […]
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Dollar Tree Considers Selling Family Dollar Stores as it Reviews Alternatives

Dollar Tree, Inc. has initiated a strategic review of its struggling Family Dollar segment, considering options including a sale, a spinoff or “other disposition of the business,” according to a statement. “Dollar Tree has been on a multi-year journey to help the company fully achieve its potential,” said Rick Dreiling, Chairman and CEO of Dollar […]
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SpartanNash adds VP for merchandising and pharmacy

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.— SpartanNash has named Graham McIvor to the newly created post of vice president for merchandising and pharmacy, effective immediately. He will be tasked with accelerating critical components of the company’s merchandising transformation and driving the strategic transformation of the pharmacy business, the food solutions company said. “Continuously progressing our merchandising transformation is […]
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  1. Channel: Dollar/Value

Dollar Tree acquires rights to 99 Cents Only Stores

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Dollar Tree Inc. today said it has acquired the designation rights to 170 leases of 99 Cents Only Stores in four states: Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas. The deal also gives Dollar Tree select intellectual property rights, as well as equipment including on-site furniture and fixtures, the company said in announcing the […]
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  1. Channel: Dollar/Value

Dollar Tree To Close 1,000 Stores

Dollar Tree said yesterday that it will close 1,000 stores – most of them Family Dollar units – over the next few years, a decision that Axios describes as “a reversal of the retailer’s rapid expansion, which included its 2015 acquisition of Family Dollar.” Six hundred Family Dollar stores are slated to close before the […]
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  1. Channel: Dollar/Value

Family Dollar Teams with Ibotta for Enhanced Digital Offers

CHESAPEAKE, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Family Dollar (Dollar Tree, Inc., NASDAQ: DLTR) has joined the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN), the first digital network that delivers coordinated promotions across retailer platforms, large third-party publisher sites and Ibotta’s leading direct-to-consumer properties. The collaboration aims to advance Family Dollar’s digital engagement and customer experience to drive more value and loyalty among […]
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  1. Channel: Dollar/Value

Family Dollar To Pay $41 Million Fine In Rat-Infested-Warehouse Case

The Associated Press reports this morning that Family Dollar Stores, a subsidiary of Dollar Tree Inc., has pleaded guilty “to holding food, drugs, cosmetics and other items under ‘insanitary’ conditions at a now-closed, rodent-infested distribution center in West Memphis, Arkansas,” a plea deal that includes “a sentence of a fine and forfeiture amount totaling $41.675 […]
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  1. Channel: Dollar/Value

New Product Contamination Charges Hit Family Dollar

Reuters reports that “Family Dollar and its parent company Dollar Tree are facing new allegations that the discount chain stores sold contaminated or damaged products even as the companies attempt to finalize the settlement of a separate multi-district litigation over claims that rats contaminated products at some stores.” The proposed class action suit in Miami […]
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Chicago Puts A Lid On Dollar Store Growth

The Chicago Sun Times reports that the City Council there has approved a new ordinance that “will prevent dollar store operators from opening within a mile of an existing dollar store owned or managed by the same controlling person.” The move comes “amid complaints of filthy, unsafe stores in the city pushing shoppers to cleaner […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

Chicago To Crack Down On Dollar Store Openings

Axios reports that “Chicago’s City Council is expected to vote next week on a proposal to limit where certain dollar stores can open … The proposed crackdown comes as many city officials decry maintenance and safety issues at such stores, while others say they keep a crucial retail presence in neighborhoods abandoned by larger stores.” […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Dollar Tree to partner on seven New York solar power plants

    [[“value”:” Dollar Tree has formed a partnership to support the construction of seven community solar power plants in New York state, which combined are estimated to generate 55.77 GWh (gigawatt hours) of clean energy annually, the equivalent of avoiding more than 24,000 metric tons of CO2 each year, reports media website EnergyTech. The […]
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What’s next for Instacart as CEO Fidji Simo announces decision to join OpenAI as head of applications?

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is departing the grocery technology company to join OpenAI as its Chief of Applications. In an email to employees, she said: “Let me start by saying this was an incredibly hard decision because I love this company. We are operating incredibly well as our last earnings results have shown. Our strategy […]
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[Week of May 9] Timely insights on consumer behavior, pricing, and retail trends This weekly snapshot highlights the most relevant signals shaping where and how consumers are spending—from e-commerce and inflation shifts to essential vs. discretionary demand. What you’ll get from this week’s report: Cross-border e-commerce slowdown: Learn how tariff pressures are reshaping sales trends […]
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How grocery continues to drive Walmart’s top line

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Grocery continues to be a key financial driver for Walmart, according to the retailer’s newest annual report released last week. The key business segment brought in $276 billion in net sales for Walmart U.S. for its fiscal year 2025, which ended Jan. 31, […]
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