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Dollar Tree, Inc. is an American multi-price-point chain of discount variety stores. Headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia , it is a Fortune 500 (sometimes referred to as Fortune 200) company and operates 15,115 stores throughout the 48 contiguous U.S. states and Canada . [ 2 ]
G.C. Murphy was a chain of five and dime or variety stores in the United States from 1906 to 2002. They also operated Murphy's Mart (full scale discount stores), Bargain World (closeout merchandise), Terry & Ferris and Bruners (junior department stores), and Cobbs (specialty apparel) stores.
Kentucky's Ashland Oil and Refining Company founder and CEO, Paul G. Blazer (1890–1966), served twice as a government salaried dollar-a-year man: from 1933 to 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration on the Code of Fair Competition for the Petroleum Industry [12] as Chairman of the Blazer Committee [13] and a second time during World War II as Chairman of ...
An art gallery in Seattle's International District preserves the façade and some features of Higo Variety Store, an independent Japanese-American five and ten. A variety store (also five and dime (historic), pound shop , or dollar store ) is a retail store that sells general merchandise, such as apparel , auto parts , dry goods , toys ...
Dollarama Inc. is a Canadian dollar store retail chain headquartered in Mount Royal, Quebec. [3] Since 2009, it has been Canada's biggest retailer of items for five dollars or less. [ 4 ] Dollarama has over 1400 stores and is active in all of Canada; Ontario has the most stores.
Australian one dollar coin, which replaced the one dollar note; Loonie, which replaced the one dollar bill in Canada; United States one-dollar bill, a denomination of United States currency
The United States one-dollar bill (US$1), sometimes referred to as a single, has been the lowest value denomination of United States paper currency since the discontinuation of U.S. fractional currency notes in 1876.
The misdirection in this riddle is in the second half of the description, where unrelated amounts are added together and the person to whom the riddle is posed assumes those amounts should add up to 30, and is then surprised when they do not — there is, in fact, no reason why the (10 − 1) × 3 + 2 = 29 sum should add up to 30.