Dollar General has close to 20,000 stores across the US. Here's how it keeps prices so low.

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Forget luxury goods, US shoppers are now using buy-now-pay-later services to pay for groceries

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Food inflation has reached record highs in the US over the past year.

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A perfect storm of food-stamp cuts and low tax refunds is looming — and discount chains like Dollar General and Big Lots could feel the pain

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A shopper passes through the bread aisle of a Big Lots store.

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

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Dollar Tree is 'aggressively expanding' the number of its stores that sell higher-priced items, and says customers aren't deterred

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A woman shops at the Dollar Tree store where $1.25 price tags are now posted on the shelves, in Alhambra, California, December 10, 2021.
Dollar Tree began putting up its prices from $1 to $1.25 in fall 2021.

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