Merrill's Stacy Turnof, who covers department and dollar stores, projects a 13% earnings increase for J.
Elsewhere in the discount retail industry, Family Dollar Stores rose 1.1% and Dollar Tree gained 0.9%.
So, too, would a cut in the retail mark-up charged by the state-owned dollar stores.
Renewed worries about the economy meant discounters and dollar stores have seen an influx of customers.
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The current short interest as a percentage of the float for Family Dollar Stores sits at 3.2%.
Family Dollar Stores operates a chain of self-service retail discount stores primarily for low- and middle-income consumers.
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Winners outnumbered losers by a wide margin, but the dollar stores were among the groups in the red.
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The point being, this shopper has such a tiny budget that dollar stores are absolutely necessary to their survival.
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Housing growth has also fueled growth in restaurants and retail chains, including 7-11, Dollar Stores and Dollar Tree.
Dollar stores, on the other hand, see an uptick in traffic and sales.
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The broader supermarket industry has been facing growing competition from big-box retailers such as Target, drugstore chains and dollar stores.
Family Dollar Stores is one of a group of discount retailers that are proving being cheap pays in this economy.
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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And yet, as Walmart increases its neighborhood-by-neighborhood presence, continually reminding shoppers of their lower prices, will dollar stores lose their edge?
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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There was red virtually across the board, including mass merchandisers, discounters, department stores, online retailers, dollar stores, specialty stores, and high-end retailers.
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This requires a red-checkered tablecloth (try the dollar stores) and candles (a few tea light candles in mason jars will do the job).
Optimism surrounds Family Dollar Stores (FDO) , as it gets ready to report its fourth quarter results on Wednesday, October 3, 2012.
Dollar stores have undergone an extreme makeover in recent years, emerging as the star performers of the retail sector amid a down economy.
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But Fairway is looking to expand at a time when the supermarket industry is facing greater competition from big-box retailers, drugstores and even dollar stores.
Check out the dollar stores for relative strength and bullish momentum.
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Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO), Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR), and other dollar stores are also both doing a great job of attracting lower income customers.
Family Dollar Stores (FDO) announced that it earned a higher profit due to food sales, though margins remained tight, and earnings were hit by a litigation settlement.
According to Merrill's annual holiday forecast, low-end dollar stores (up 8%) and high-end luxury merchants (up 7.2%) are predicted to lead the pack in the November-December 2006 period.
However, there is a good side to having the dollar stores and Walmarts as indirect competitors since they lower the value of brand names with their cheap prices.
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Posting in a recent RetailWire online discussion, Paula Rosenblum, managing partner, RSR Research, found weakness in the assumption that Walmart could scale down to run a small format competitive to dollar stores.
In the case of Family Dollar Stores, Inc.
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