Discussion: Dollar Tree To Buy Family Dollar To Create $9B Dollar-Store Giant

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You know, in school we were taught that during the Depression, shantytowns were called ā€˜Hoovervillesā€™, and newspapers used to cover you when you slept on the streets were ā€˜Hoover Blanketsā€™. Because of course, Hoover made what was bad, worse.

Following that train of thought, I suggest that Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Dollar General and the like should be renamed DubyaMarts.

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Two-Dollar Tree
ā€œ#missedopportunityā€

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OK, then, truth in packagingā€¦ call them ā€œ$9 Billion Dollar Treeā€ stores, just for reference.

and as an edit, financing something with debt has always seemed like double backwards sort of BS somehow, call me old fashionedā€¦

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Family Dollar is not a dollar store. Itā€™s a discount store. I know libā€™ruls ainā€™t supposed to be caught dayed in these here places, and thereā€™s no stupid quite like City Slicker Stupid but there you are http://www.thestreet.com/story/12822470/1/dollar-general-beats-family-dollar-and-dollar-tree-put-together.html

Family Dollar sold because Dollar General was eating their lunch, and Carl Icahn bought 9% of 'em. Dollar Tree bought because they are stoopid.

Crap for cheap.

So will it be ā€œFamily Dollar Treeā€ now?