Family Dollar is making its shelves even taller so that it can fit hundreds more products in its 'chaotic' stores

• Family Dollar's stores are going to get even fuller as the chain makes its shelves taller.
• Its CEO said this means it can add 1,000 more items to its product range.
• Family Dollar's stores are often cluttered. Dead rodents were found at a distribution center last year.

Family Dollar is making its shelves even taller to enable it to add hundreds more products to its stores.

"We have begun raising the shelf height to a 70-inch profile throughout the stores to enable us to broaden the product offering for our shoppers," Rick Dreiling, CEO of parent company Dollar Tree, said at its fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.

"This profit-enhancing initiative allows us to grow our SKU base by 1,000 items."