A Family Dollar store.
Dollar Tree is considering a sale of Family Dollar.
  • Dollar Tree is considering selling Family Dollar almost a decade after acquiring it.
  • Photos show one issue for the troubled chain: Products getting crushed in transit to stores.
  • Dollar stores opened thousands of new stores in recent years but also faced operational issues.

Three times a week, a truck driver reports to a distribution center for Family Dollar in Florida and picks up a trailer full of products destined for one of the retailer's stores.