Americans keen to stretch their budgets last quarter made Dollar General stores a frequent stop.
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In Africa, the gasoline retailer Total sells the S250 in its quick-marts, which are similar to general stores.
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But general stores, such as department stores, suffered a 1.3% drop in sales in March from the previous month.
In Hyderabad and its environs, 21% of the middle class run general stores, 17% tailor-shops, 8.5% telephone booths and 8% sell fruit and vegetables.
Sales at general merchandise stores, a category that covers department stores, increased by 1%.
General merchandise stores added a meager 300 jobs in that month.
And sales at general merchandise stores fell 0.9%.
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Daiei, the biggest retailer, operates 383 general-merchandise stores.
It operates a chain of approximately 7, 400 general merchandise retail discount stores in 45 states.
Wal-Mart Express is anticipated to compete with stores like Dollar General (NYSE: DG).
Through 2011, Target cut general merchandise footage in its stores and expanded its food assortment area.
Grocery stores, in general, have seen a sharp spike in theft as they expand their product offerings beyond food and beverage categories.
Shares of Dollar Tree, Family Dollar Stores and Dollar General were all in the red after the latter reported earnings Tuesday morning.
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Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank staged a general strike Monday, closing stores and offices in protest against Israel's takeover of the building.
The same revolution in logistics and computer-driven merchandising that led to Wal-Mart is now being used by companies like Dollar General to build highly profitable stores within cities.
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"Resolving this litigation is in the best interest of our company, our shareholders and our associates, " said Tom Mars, general counsel of Wal-Mart Stores.
But the vast majority come from other, less rigorously overlooked, stores and so the general advice is to be careful who you buy from and then be careful what access (for example to SMS privileges) you give code that you do indeed download.
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Around half of the supermarket's sales growth came from the online arm and smaller convenience stores, he said, with general merchandise and clothing growing at more than twice the rate of food over the year.
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Such specialized retail credit cards differ from so-called general-purpose cards used at multiple-location stores.
Analysts say businesses like Dollar Tree and Dollar General have positioned themselves to draw shoppers from grocery stores and big-box retailers.
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And then much smaller cuts of beef are sent already - you know, meat in general - are sent already pre-wrapped to stores like Safeway or Costco.
Also betting big on sin-driven sales, Dollar General has been rolling out wine and beer to more stores.
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Weinswig also went relatively easy on other value-oriented stores like BJ's, Costco and Dollar General, as she believes they may benefit from conservative consumer spending patterns over the next two years.
Dollar General is benefiting, notes Agnese, from the opening of more stores (it opened 625 stores in 2012 and intends to open about the same number this year), shrinking losses from thefts, and increased number of private label products.
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In 1993 Home Depot caught General Electric running down its lightbulb inventories, causing shortages at hundreds of stores.
Dollar General and Family Dollar Store, and the company is actually creating smaller stores that will directly target the dollar stores.
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General Growth has found, though, that consumers will spend more money if all the stores they want are tightly bunched.
His largest holdings are Walmart Stores Inc. ( WMT), Adecoagro SA ( AGRO) and General Electric Company ( GE).
He wants to have 35 U.S. stores by the end of 2005. (There are 4 now.) He and some General Growth salespeople flip through shopping mall layouts, studying the high-traffic locations he wants.
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