U.S. Dollar Stores - Statistics & Facts

The two major competitors of the dollar store format throughout the nation are Dollar General and Dollar Tree, which purchased Family Dollar in 2015. In 2016, Dollar General's net sales amounted to about 22 billion U.S. dollars and Dollar Tree generated about 15.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, albeit Dollar Tree's figure incorporates sales made in Canada as well.

The gap between mass merchandisers, supercenters and dollar stores is shrinking. A survey conducted in September of 2014 revealed that about 65 percent of consumer packaged goods were bought by U.S. households in dollar stores.

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