Dollar General/Family Dollar Case Study

Dollar General is very active in the communities in which it operates specifically with its literacy programs. While www.dgliteracy.org is the charitable focus that Dollar General puts its name on, they also have partnerships with other nationwide charitable organizations.

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.

In a day of, “I want it now and I’m willing to pay for it,” a shopping center has to offer a variety of stores, and also have several options. The shoe shopper will go to the place with 5 shoe stores before they go to the place with only 1. They may not realize that of the 5 available shoe stores; only 1 is in their price range, but satisfying a wider variety of consumers will help the mall broaden the shopper’s experience. But it is important to remember that shoppers are price sensitive, so not only do you need a variety of stores offering a variety of products, but you also need to be able to provide a variety of price points so you don’t limit your shopper demographics.

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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 currently operates 11,789 discount merchandise retail stores throughout 43 United States. The majority of its merchandise is priced under $10 dollars and its stores are located in low cost real-estate areas. While reviewing the performance of Dollar Generals financial and strategic position my analysis shows your company has a winning strategy due to the improvements of its performance from 2005 to 2015 by, increasing its profit with shareholder investments, decreasing the number of day’s inventory is held, increasing its liquidity, and sustaining its profit margins.

In 2015, Dollar Tree finalized its acquisition of the Family Dollar brand chain (Thomas, 2015). Per Thomas (2015), the combining of these two brands will give the organization more than 13,000 stores in 48 states and five of the Canadian provinces and allow them to be a multi-price point retail chain. Dollar Tree CEO Bob Sasser was quoted as saying “This is a transformational opportunity for our business to offer a broader, more compelling merchandise assortment, with greater value, to a wider array of customers” (Thomas, 2015). Another change that has been noted is that the size of the Dollar Tree stores is getting bigger. They are placing themselves in stores with more square footage so that they can offer more products and incorporate food items into their offerings. Even with combining of the two brands and expanding their store size, Dollar Tree corporation is still facing

The Dollar General is an American wholesale company that was first initiated in Scottsville, Tennessee by Turner and Cal Turner. Its headquarters are located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The mission statement of the Dollar General is "Serving Others." This mission statement helps to bring out the innate requests and intentions of the company in the United States of America and other countries in the world. The company has a vision that describes how it manages to cater for four different types of people. These four groups of people include the customers, the community, employees, and shareholders. Within these categories of people, Dollar General aspires to serve others through deliver of price quality and terrific prices for customers, opportunity, and respect for employees, a superior return for shareholders and a better life for the communities.

“Over the course of [a few years after Wal-Mart entered a community], retailers' sales of men’s' and boys' apparel dropped 44% on average, hardware sales fell by 31%, and lawn and garden sales fell by 26%. In towns without Wal-Marts that are close to towns with Wal-Marts, sales in general merchandise declined immediately after Wal-Mart stores opened. After ten years, sales declined by a cumulative 34%.”

To lower production costs or producer transaction costs. Wal-Mart.com is able to lower production costs due to the fact that the number of employees, rent and advertising costs will be respectable lower for the business online than for a discount store. Instead of intermediate warehousing, Wal-mart.com will directly deliver the ordered number of products and in this regard lower its producer transaction costs, which will shift its supply curve to the right, causing a right shift of the demand curve as well.

Wal-Mart was first opened in 1962 by Sam Walter as a retail store. It started out a five and dime store in Rogers, Arkansas and was called Walton’s. He opened this store with one goal in mind, to sale at the lowest prices possible, quality leadership and great customer services. He thought that his idea could change the retail industrial. Wal-Mart was built on a solid foundation that remains stable even after the death of Mr. Walton. Wal-Mart became the largest multinational retail store in America, with a grocery store and a pharmacy. There is a Wal-Mart in all fifty states and seventeen international states and has more than 2.3 million employees. This store

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

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Wal-Mart is a company which operates in the service sector, more specifically in the “Discount, Variety Stores/Retail” industry. The company’s superior performance is demonstrated through the fact that it was America’s largest company (in terms of revenue) in 2002, and the reputation of the company is reflected in the opinion of “Fortune” who have identified Wal-Mart as one of the world’s most admired companies. In 2004 Wal-Mart had been hiring 1.4 million employees – making it the largest corporation in the world. Wal-Mart’s share prices have also been stable at time of stock market volatility. There are

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