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FY 2016: <\/strong>900 new stores (+ 875 relocations and remodels)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Historical Data Source: Chain Store Guide\u2019s Discount Stores and Specialty Retailers Database. Data is not intended for investment decisions. <\/p>\n Both the net number of new stores and the year-over-year growth are quite significant in a historical context, and though no direct mention was made during the investor presentation of the Dollar Tree acquisition of Family Dollar last summer and its now-combined 13,000+ store presence, it no doubt weighs heavily in DG planning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Historical Data Source: Chain Store Guide\u2019s Discount Stores and Specialty Retailers Database. Data is not intended for investment decisions.<\/em> <\/p>\n Vasos also noted that Dollar General has identified 13,000 \u201cgrowth opportunities\u201d throughout the continental U.S. \u2014 locations well-suited for placement of a Dollar General store. He went on to say, \u201cWhile we won’t get all 13,000, our goal is to get the lion’s share of those 13,000.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGetting close\u201d to capitalizing on those 13,000 opportunities would get Dollar General close to doubling the 12,483 stores it had in place to close 2015. And serve reporters up with quite a few made-to-order stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alongside the results from this year\u2019s chili cook-off and details on the forthcoming changes to the curbside recycling program, the \u201cNew Dollar General to Open in [Insert Your Town Here]\u201d story is a mainstay for local reporters across the U.S. Following Dollar General\u2019s robust late-March presentation to investors detailing its long-term strategic plans and what… Continue reading Are Dollars Opening Up In Your Town?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discount-specialty","category-uncategorized","tag-csg-exclusive","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}FY 2017: <\/strong>1,000 new stores (+ 900 relocations and remodels)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/dollarexclusive2016.JPG\")
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\n*Projection: Dollar General Corp. <\/em><\/p>\nNet units: These 1,900 store openings reflect an unprecedented level of expansion for the company, equaling in two years the number of stores opened in the previous three, which to date have been the three most productive years in DG history for store openings. In his investor presentation, CEO Todd Vasos labeled this as \u201caggressive growth, but
\ngrowth we can manage.\u201d<\/p>\nYear-over-year growth: The FY 2016 and F2017 expansion plans equate to year-over-year store growth rates of 7.2% and 7.5%, rates Dollar General hasn\u2019t produced since 2005 when the addition of 767 stores produced a 10.5% increase in total stores.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/dollar2exclusive2016.JPG\")
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\n *Projection: Dollar General Corp.<\/em><\/p>\n