With an entire coast still to populate, and stores meeting a growing shopper demand for value and convenience, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the dollar store channel to grow. But that hasn’t tempered speculation over what’s next for this rapidly changing channel. Concerns over rising costs of real estate, new competition, effects of an improving economy and eventually an end to so-called “white spaces” on the map increasingly accompany a story
Date: Aug. 19, 2013