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First, let’s look at “For Customers, A Better Life.” Dollar General doesn’t try to carry everything. They narrow their product selection down to include only the most common necessities.

There are several different types of stores within the discount retail industry, and for comparison's sake, the industry is further broken into many segments. DG is in the market segment known as the dollar store category. As a result, competitors such as Wal-Mart are in the same industry but not the same peer group. Comparisons will be made throughout this report to Wal-Mart and other big firms because they tend draw some of the same customers.

The Canadian business comparison report comprises of the companies details and also the comparison between a Canadian local business and Indian local business. For this report I have chosen Canada’s Dollarama and India’s D-Mart as both company have same target market. Dollarama is Canada’s leading dollar store with 900 locations across Canada. Larry Rossy, a third generation retailer, founded the company in 1992. The first Dollarama store opened in April 1992, in a shopping center "Les promenades du St-Laurent" in Matane, Quebec. The products sold are in single or multiple pieces at selected price point of not more than $3. The company aims to provide customers with a consistent

Wal-Mart has opened Neighborhood Stores in several communities and the prices are higher than Dollar General and the regular Wal-Mart stores. Sometimes bigger is not better. You get what you pay for and convenience is the main product for me. Unless I am looking to purchase a high dollar item or a major appliance, Dollar General Store in the first place that cross my mind. I cannot remember what item I last purchased at Wal-Mart or

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When it comes to Services, Wal-Mart also has the upper hand. In many stores they offer: a Bakery, Meats, Photo Centers as well a on site photographers, Automotive services, Hair Salons, Banks, Optical Offices, Pharmacy, Nail Salons as well as restaurants such as McDonald's, and Subway. Target has rivaled many of these services providing in store Starbucks, Taco Bell/Pizza huts, and the most recent advance is an in store clinic. Even with these amenities it is still far behind Wal-Mart in the services department.

Family Dollar has a big competitive advantage over supermarkets and box stores. The same products that the supermarkets and box stores carry, Family Dollar sells to its customers for a cheaper price. Family Dollar stores are conveniently located in your local neighborhoods within walking or a short driving distance. Most supermarkets and box stores you have to fight with crowds and parking in a larger shopping district. Family dollar not only sells food and health and beauty products but they also have clothing for the family. This is something that supermarkets do not carry. Some box stores do carry clothing products but not with the convenience that Family

Dollar General and Family Dollar are not what they claim to be in the view of their customers. As for some items in Dollar General and Family Dollar are seen to be marked up more compared to the same item of better quality at a Walmart Store. If the items bought at a “dollar” store are a dollar there is more likely of a chance that the item will be of low value in the first place, but not all the time. In the true dollar stores like Dollar Tree, there are a lot of “here and there” items that are very well worth a dollar to many people, others not so good of a deal. The same “here and there” items at a Family Dollar or Dollar General are usually known to not be a dollar, but the items are still sold to customers that

Dear Dollar General or as you will now be known as to me Ghetto General, because I shop there all the time.

The rate of return on assets for Dollar General for 2010 was 6.8% thus for each dollar the company used it earned $0.068. For 2009 ROA was 3.8%, so ROA increased between 2009 and 2010 fiscal years. Profit Margin for ROA is 4.8% for 2010 and for 2009 is 2.9%. We can see an increase

The two sites I chose to compare are BJ’s and Sam’s Club. I chose the two of them because they do carry some of the same products, but yet a lot of different products. I feel as though the BJ’s site is a little friendlier to navigate than Sam’s Club.

The two sites I chose to compare are BJ’s and Sam’s Club. I chose the two of them because they do carry some of the same products but yet a lot of different products.

The Dollar Tree brand of stores has been around since 1986, when Douglas Perry, Macon Brock, and Ray Compton founded the chain as a compliment to their other business, K & K Toys (Parnell, 2014). Through the years, Dollar Tree has acquired several different dollar store and low-end retail chains to grow their business to over 4000 stores (Shetty, 2010). One of the first and most strategic moves that the company made was to shift away from carrying closeout merchandise and to become more of a traditional variety store with a wide variety of basic goods all priced at a dollar or less. To accomplish this change, the chain had to discontinue their current purchasing strategies and had to begin buying directly from manufacturers to change the type of merchandise that they had available for consumers. The second major strategic move involved changing the location of where stores are usually located. Up until this point, the stores had been being in enclosed malls. With this change,

The respect and care Dollar General gives to the customers and employees comes back to benefit them in their revenue. Dollar General gives the customer a cheap reliable product and distributes it through stores that are local and convenient; convenience and price is where they win. At Dollar General they research and battle daily to provide the cheapest prices in the business at our stores. Not only are the prices cheap, but they are made easy for the customers when shopping. Customers can find the prices of all the products in even increments. This makes it easy for the customers when adding up totals and figuring out taxes. Another convenient aspect of our stores is the size. On average a Dollar General store will be about 6,900 square feet. This allows the customer to get in and out of the store as quickly possible and get on with their day. In fact the average shopper at Dollar General will have completed their shopping, paid, and out the store within 10-20 minutes. This can be compared to a customer going into Wal-Mart shopping for the same goods would spend around 55 minutes in the store. Our last strength would be the products. Dollar General is designed

A1: Dollar General's main business strategy is to focus on being the leading distributors of consumable basics, with 30% of the merchandise at $1.00 or less. Dollar General believes in maintaining an assortment of consumable merchandise and making shopping for everyday items hassle free and simplistic.