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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Bargain centers, such as Dollar Tree and Dollar General, are thought to have attracted greater sales as Americans focused on their budgets.
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Analysts say competitors like Target and Costco, as well as discount chains like Dollar Tree and Dollar General, could be seeing fewer customers.
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The Refounded Communists have been uncomfortable partners for the government ever since the Olive Tree coalition won the general election of April 1996.
Dollar General (DG), Dollar Tree (DLTR) and Family Dollar are all trading near new highs and riding atop their 10-, 50- and 200-day moving averages.
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But when really hard economic times hit, when sustained high unemployment sends the number of Americans living on the edge of poverty sharply higher, those mainstream retailers lose market share to ultra-discounters like Family Dollar, Dollar General ( DG) and Dollar Tree ( DLTR).
In Baidoa, a town shattered by over a decade of fighting, Mohammed Sayid Hersi - more commonly known as General Morgan - sits under a shady tree with allies from the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC).
Mr Prodi, whose own centre-left alliance, known as the Olive Tree, won the 1996 general election in cahoots with the unreformed ex-communists, is said to be bitter that Mr D'Alema snatched his job without winning an election.
The thinking was that he would formally take up the leadership of the opposition when his European job ends in November, and then lead a broad coalition rather like 2001's Olive Tree into the next Italian general election, due by 2006.
Initially, it was a police general but suspicion quickly moved higher up the CPP tree.
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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Dollar Tree reports earnings on November 17 and Dollar General reports on December 5.
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The Secretary-General then visited the UN House in Yangon, where he planted a tree sapling, unveiled a plaque commemorating his visit and inaugurated a new U Thant Conference Room in the complex.
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