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Family Dollar, Dollar Tree to close 1,000 stores. Will Ohio locations be affected?
Family Dollar will close nearly 1,000 stores as inflation cuts into the discount retailer’s profits, CNN is reporting.
Dollar Tree, which owns Family Dollar, missed market expectations for holiday-quarter sales and profit on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Shares of the company fell 14% before the bell after it also projected 2024 sales and profit below expectations.
A discount chain that caters to lower-income customers, Family Dollar will close 600 locations in the first half of 2024 and another 370 stores over the next several years as those leases expire, according to CNN.
The retailer hasn’t announced which stores will close.
Dollar Tree, which bought Family Dollar in 2015 for $8.5 billion, also said it will close 30 stores as leases expire.
Dollar stores have struggled following a shift in consumer spending to lower-margin essentials from higher-margin discretionary goods, according to Reuters. They also face stiff competition from rivals such as Walmart and Chinese e-commerce platform Temu.
Also, Family Dollar stores have been plagued by health and safety concerns for employees and workers, CNN reports.
The retailer was fined this year for violating product safety standards after selling items that were stocked in a rat-infested warehouse. The $41.6 million fine was “the largest-ever monetary criminal penalty in a food safety case,” the Justice Department said.
More: Family Dollar’s rat-infested warehouse, damaged products, lead to $41.6 million fine
Family Dollar, Dollar Tree locations in Ohio
Dollar Tree has more than 200 locations in Ohio, including multiple stores in Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo.
Family Dollar has more than 450 Ohio stores, according to data scraping sites like ScrapeHero and Smartscrapers. It also has multiple locations in large cities such as Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo.
Ohio is No. 3 in the nation for Family Dollar stores, behind Florida (about 570) and Texas (more than 1,100).
Dollar Tree to start selling some items for more than $1
The pandemic has caused prices to soar in just about every industry, and Dollar Tree has felt the effects of it as well.
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Family Dollar, Dollar Tree undergoing ‘store portfolio optimization review’
During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023, the discount chain announced it had initiated a comprehensive store portfolio optimization review to “identify stores for closure, relocation, or re-bannering based on an evaluation of current market conditions and individual store performance, among other factors.”
That review was used to determine 600 Family Dollar stores would be closed in the first half of 2024.
Another 370 Family Dollar and 30 Dollar Tree stores will be closed over the next several years at the end of each store’s current lease term.
The Oregon Ducks’ 2026 season is getting closer to opening at Autzen Stadium, and the Ducks have some of the loftiest expectations surrounding the program in recent memory. The Ducks faced their toughest test in the regular season last season when the eventual national champion Indiana Hoosiers visited Autzen Stadium, and faced their toughest test of the 2024 season when the eventual national champion Ohio State Buckeyes visited Eugene.
Oregon Ducks Will Face Hostile Crowd in Columbus, Ohio.
With the start of the season around the corner, there is one game on the Ducks ‘ regular-season slate that stands out as their biggest test of the year.
Perhaps Oregon’s biggest test of the 2026 season won’t be at Autzen Stadium but rather on the road. The Ducks face the Ohio State Buckeyes on November 7 in Columbus at the Horseshoe for what promises to be another all-time classic. Ducks coach Dan Lanning is 1-1 in his career against Ohio State, defeating them in Eugene in 2024 before falling to Buckeyes coach Ryan Day’s side on January 1, 2025, at the Rose Bowl.
In terms of a game being a “test,” the Buckeyes in Columbus will certainly present one. At the late stages of the season, if the Ducks or Buckeyes both have one loss heading into the matchup, the loser of the game could potentially see their College Football hopes scattered to the wind.
Oregon Defensive Coordinator Chris Hampton Will Have to Slow Down Ohio State Stars
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The Buckeyes’ offense could very well be the biggest test new Oregon defensive coordinator Chris Hampton will see all season, as he will be tasked with coming up with a game plan to stop not only Heisman Trophy hopeful quarterback Julian Sayin, but arguably the best wide receiver in all of college football in Jeremiah Smith.
The Ducks should have the advantage in the trenches as far as the defensive line in nearly every game this season, with the entire starting defensive line having chosen to come back to Eugene for another season.
Oregon Ducks Quarterback Dante Moore Will Have to Have Poise
Ducks quarterback Dante Moore will face a massive test in his own right. The Horseshoe is routinely one of the toughest places to play, and Moore will have to call back on his calm demeanor in the Ducks’ win over Penn State in Happy Valley to put in a respectable performance away at Ohio State.
Dan Lanning Will Have Massive Test Game Planning for Julian Sayin
Perhaps the biggest test in the Ducks’ late regular-season game against the Buckeyes will be for coach Dan Lanning. Lanning has shown that he can game plan well against teams coached by Day, evidenced by the Ducks’ win over the Buckeyes back in 2024, but he will have to do it on the road this time. Lanning has also been prone to big losses in critical stages, with his two losses last year against the Hoosiers and the blowout loss to the Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl Game two seasons ago.
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WARREN, Ohio (WKBN) — Police are investigating after a car crashed into a popular fitness center in Warren.
Just before 10 p.m., a car drove into the Planet Fitness on Elm Road. The car has since been removed from the building.
Bystanders tell our crew on scene that two people were taken away by ambulance.
Warren’s Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash.
Alex Sorrells contributed to this report.
A nighttime call about a break-in in small-town Ohio ended with four people dead, including a police sergeant and a 13-year-old girl. Authorities say officers arrived around 9:30pm Sunday in Rittman, about 20 miles west of Akron, and were immediately met with gunfire, the Canton Repository reports. Sgt. Scott Ries, a 10-year veteran of the Rittman Police Department and a former Wayne County deputy sheriff, was fatally shot while responding to what officials described as a disturbance call.
- Four other officers—three Medina County sheriff’s deputies and a Hinckley Police Department officer—were injured, the AP reports. Two were hospitalized in stable condition and two were treated at the scene. A Wayne County K-9, Vick, was badly injured.
The suspected shooter, 38-year-old Brandon Fazekas, died from a wound consistent with suicide, the coroner said. The Wayne County coroner identified the other victims as the suspect’s ex-partner and her daughter, WKYC reports. The coroner said 43-year-old Christine McWilliams and her 13-year-old daughter, McKinley, were both killed in what appear to be homicides. Rittman is a town of around 6,100 people on the border between Wayne and Medina counties.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is leading the probe. In a statement, the city of Rittman praised Reis, 54, for his “honor and courage” and “enduring commitment to protecting others.” “Our hearts are broken with this unimaginable loss,” the city said.
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