I agree with Amorette. The Dollar Tree, given the nature of its business, is sure to be completely overrun by Miles Citians searching for bargains. Thank the lord my mother doesn't live there anymore.
Replace "Wall Mart" with "Dollar Tree", eliminate the mountains, and I'm sure on the 23rd the scene will resemble this:
I wish the owners the best. May God have mercy on their souls.
The 23rd might be a great day to go shopping at the Dollar Plus store in downtown Miles City... kinda like the 17th of March is a great day to go to a Mexican restaurant and the 5th of May is a great day to go to an Irish pub.
Dollar Stores nothing more than additional crap to dust and sell at a garage sale or estate auction. I'm sure the local blue hairs will make their offspring proud.
I shop at the one here in Billings. Ziplocks for sandwiches, party supplies and all those disposable things are much easier to pay for when they're only a buck.
There are lots of seasonal things along with kids toys and books. LOTS of coloring books, puzzle books and regular books. I've bought a couple of really good biographies for only a buck each.
And they have some teaching supplies, for both regular school and church school.
Should be a good opening. I hope they realize how much they are needed by the end of the day!
"Needed?" You mean Miles City has actually been suffering from the lack of a Dollar Tree all these years?
C'mon now. The Airport Inn is "needed." A Dollar Tree is just a store for Chinese-made cheap stuff.
I suspect they want to have a 'soft' opening. That will never happen.
The reason for a soft opening is not to discourage big crowds...a soft opening gives the store an "out" if things go wrong. "Well, we're not officially open yet so that's why the computer is screwed up."
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Well, that didn't last long. Drove down Main Street today and noticed that Dollar Plus is already out of business, according to the sign in the window.
The dollar plus will be opening again soon with a different theme. If you haven't been in the new Dollar tree don't knock it. it's nice and serves its purpose.
I was just wondering if the Dollar Tree is going out of business, because I was in there the other day and a lot of shelves were empty, and they get a truck on Monday morning ( this was on Wednesday)
Their home office is in Georgia. Very often, shipping estimates are off when you are shipping cross-country. I once worked for a vendor in Florida who honestly thought we could place weekly orders and get the freight here in four days. I would guess they have a shipping schedule that forgets to take into account how BIG the western US is.
I believe there home office is in Virginia, and the reason I know the truck is always been there on Monday is I am a x employee there has only been 1 or 2 times the truck came on Tuesday they need someone who knows how to run the back room........and knows how to rotate stock.. Make sure you check the dates on thing (food that is)
FWIW, Dollar Tree apparently has 10 Distribution Centers across the US. Here's a map showing the location of each and the area they serve (from their web site). It looks like Miles City is served from a distribution center in Ridgefield, WA.
Wendy, if the Dollar Tree goes out of business, I do believe half of the retail market east of Billings is soon to follow.
I am heading to MC the first weekend of August to attend a wedding. Rest assured, the first place I intend to drag my lovely bride of nearly 24 years is the Dollar Tree store. After that, the sky is the limit.
In California, one time I saw an 89 cent store across from a 99 cent store. Seriously. At first I wondered, why undercut the competition so much? (So brutal.) Then I thought, can anyone actually make a profit cutting 10 cents off the same stuff the store across the street is selling? How, I dunno. It's still a mystery.
Dollar Tree Agrees to Acquire Family Dollar for $8.5 Billion
Dollar Tree Inc. (DLTR) agreed to buy Family Dollar Stores Inc. (FDO) for about $8.5 billion, creating a sprawling discount chain with $18 billion in sales and more locations than any other retailer in the U.S.
Dollar Tree will pay $74.50 a share in cash and stock, 23 percent above Family Dollar’s closing price at the end of last week, according to a statement from the companies today. Including debt, the deal has a value of about $9.2 billion.
I went into the Dollar Tree yesterday to do a little shopping and shelves are empty alot of empty shelves..... they say there truck comes on Monday but there is alot in the back room....