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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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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A Dollar General developer sued a Michigan town after it said 'no' to one of the chain's stores

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A customer walks into a Dollar General store though the parking lot in Austin, Texas. A compact Volkswagen car sits in front of the store, with the yellow
A Dollar General developer sued Nottawa Township after it denied a rezoning request that would have paved the way for a dollar store in the town.

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Dollar General has paid a fraction of the $21 million it owes in fines for hazardous working conditions

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Dollar General has paid less than one-fifth of the fines that the federal government says it owes as a result of safety violations at its stores.

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Walmart is cheaper than Dollar General for groceries

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Dollar General customers are buying groceries but skipping non-essentials as they rely on savings, credit cards, and borrowing money from friends to get by

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Dollar General has been expanding its grocery assortment.

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Eggs are so expensive that Dollar Tree has just given up stocking them

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This Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, photo shows a woman leaving a Dollar Tree store in Urbandale, Iowa.
Dollar Tree said Tuesday that it will halt egg sales until later this year as avian flu keeps egg prices near historic highs.

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TikToker shows people how to live off Dollar Tree groceries that cost $35 a week as Americans flock to dollar stores for cheaper food

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Rebecca Chobat set up the TikTok account Dollar Tree Dinners to show people how to cook with groceries sold at the discount chain.

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Dollar General's stores are so overrun with merchandise that fire marshals are closing them

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Red arrows added by Insider point to rolltainers full of boxed merchandise outside of a Dollar General store in Minnesota. Snow and ice is visible on the pavement.
A Dollar General store in Minnesota, where merchandise was stored on the sidewalk outside of the store this winter.

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