CNN

400 Family Dollar stores closed after a rat infestation. It’s part of a troubling pattern

The conditions described by the US Food and Drug Administration at a Family Dollar warehouse in West Memphis, Arkansas, were skin-crawling. “Live rodents, dead rodents in various states of decay, ...
CNN

Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar, ending its disastrous merger

Dollar Tree is ending its short-lived and ill-fated Family Dollar experiment, offloading the discount brand for $1 billion – just a fraction of its purchase price from a decade ago. Family Dollar will ...
Retail Dive

Dollar Tree, Family Dollar to close 1,000 stores

Dollar Tree said in November that it planned to review its Family Dollar portfolio and identify underperforming stores for closure, relocation, or re-bannering. The Virginia-based company, which had ...
The Motley Fool

Dollar Tree Is Selling Family Dollar. But What Does That Mean for Dollar General Investors?

Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar for drastically less than it paid to buy it. The pace of Family Dollar store closures could increase once the chain is sold to its private equity acquirers. Rival ...
The New York Times

I Keep the Family Tree — And I’m Flummoxed About Whom to Include.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...