Dollar General's messy stores are haunting the retailer as it takes a $95 million hit on inventory markdowns and deploys 'smart teams' to clean up

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Clutter might keep some consumers away, but Dollar General is the only choice for essential food items and home goods in many areas.
Dollar General executives say they're taking steps to clean up stores overstocked with inventory, including marking down items and creating special teams of employees dedicated to organizing the clutter.

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Self checkout could be making Americans lonelier

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People wearing coats and other cold-weather clothing scan and pay for groceries at a supermarket in New York City. Lighted signs that read
Self-checkout stations are one example of technology making Americans lonelier.

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Businesses are pressuring Target to force its employees to return to the office — and it's more evidence that companies can't win in the remote work wars

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Small businesses in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, say that the retailer's policy on remote work is hurting them.

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Whole Foods is attracting extreme couponers who are sharing tips on TikTok for saving money at the supermarket once known as 'whole paycheck'

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Whole Foods may seem like a surprising place for extreme couponers, but the company has spent years cutting prices.

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Leaked photos show a Dollar General store with rat-chewed products, a dead rodent, and fecal matter covering the stockroom floor.

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A bag of pet food sits in a metal carrier in a Hutto, Texas Dollar General store. A hole chewed by a rat through the bag is visible.
A chewed up bag of pet food at a Dollar General store in Texas. It's one of the latest examples of a dollar store to face a rodent infestation.

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An Instacart customer was charged $2,783.25 for a Kroger order of $282 she never received. 'My heart stopped.'

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A Kroger shopper in Ohio said that she was charged $2,783.25, about 10 times what she should've been, for an order of groceries for delivery.

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A Dollar General shopper says she tried to check out before realizing the doors were left open after the store closed for the night

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The inside of a Dollar General store in California, including a black and yellow
A recent viral TikTok shows a shopper walking into a Dollar General that was closed but left unlocked.

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Amazon Fresh stores are installing self-checkout after years of trying to get customers to use Just Walk Out tech

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Some Amazon Fresh stores will soon feature self-checkout stands, a move the company made after years of trying to get customers to use its Just Walk Out technology.

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Your snacks are getting more expensive. Blame these big food companies, not inflation.

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A Kitkat chocolate bar is pictured in the supermarket of Nestle headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy
Nestlé, maker of KitKat bars, is one of the food companies that continued raising prices and booked higher profit even as food inflation slowed down in early 2023.

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Amazon Fresh is laying off hundreds of store workers

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People lining up outside an Amazon Fresh store in Pasadena, CA
Amazon Fresh is eliminating hundreds of jobs at its grocery stores, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

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