For more than 75 years dollar general has been a retail discount store. Dollar General formally known as Turner and Son Wholesale located in Scottsville, KY opened for business in 1939. Carl Sr. and J.L. converted the wholesale store to Dollar General in 1959 and no merchandise cost over $1. Cal Jr was quoted as saying, “It’s not a family business anymore, but our business is a family” ( Since 1968 the company has gone from public to private and back to public. Dollar General operates 14,534 stores in 44 states, 129,00 employees and $23 billion dollars in sales. Not to mention since 2016 it has acquired 323 family dollar stores and 41 Walmart Express stores. In addition to high-quality private brands, they also sell products from manufacturers such as Clorox, Energizer, Procter & Gamble, Hanes, Coca-Cola and Mars just to name a few. The retail giant sells consumables, clothing, seasonal and home products. They also offer services such as free home delivery and gift cards. …show more content…
To keep true to their mission statement they partner with the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program, the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program to help make holiday dreams come true for thousands of families and they participate in the Thanks and Giving campaign raising millions of dollars to fight childhood cancer St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In fact, as of 2017 the organization has awarded more than $135 million in grants to nonprofit organizations Their subsidiaries of Dollar General are Dolgencorp, Dollar General Global Sourcing and Dollar General Literacy