Dollar Stores Are Targeting Struggling Urban Neighborhoods and Small Towns. One Community Is Showing How to Fight Back. - Institute for Loca

“One Community is Showing How to Fight Back” is Buzzfeed-style clickbait titling crawling its way up the seriousness chain, but dollar stores becoming a central part of the American retail landscape is an interesting story

Of course we’ve been through this before when they were “five and dime” shops; F.W. Woolworth’s “Great Five Cent Store” first opened in the late 1870s when that was the equivalent of around $1.25 today

Looking it up I am charmed that the concept exists in other countries as the “pound shop”, “euro store”, and “100-yen shop”