‘Retail apocalypse’ continues: Gap, Family Dollar, thousands of other stores will close this year

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Family Dollar and Dollar General are basically just convenience stores that have a somewhat larger product line and charge even increments of a dollar for things. People think they're cheap because it's a "dollar" store.

In reality the products are cheap, but the prices aren't.