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The company grew rapidly; by 1961, Family Dollar had expanded into neighboring South Carolina. In 1962, Family Dollar did some $2 million ($19.9 million in 2023 money) in business, and moved into the Augusta, Georgia market. Around this time, Levine went solo, buying out his partner's interest in the company.
Family Dollar Stores, Inc. is an American variety store chain. With over 8,000 locations in all states except Alaska and Hawaii, it was the second largest retailer of its type in the United States until it was acquired by Dollar Tree in 2015 when its headquarters operations were moved from Matthews, a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, to Chesapeake, Virginia, located in South Hampton Roads.
Cal Turner Jr. was born on January 25, 1940, to Laura and Cal Turner. [1] [2] He is the son of Cal Turner, the founder of Dollar General. [3]He has three siblings, including a sister, Laura Dugas. [4]
It later became known as Dollar General, a chain of dollar stores. [1] He listed it on the New York Stock Exchange in 1968. [1] He retired in 1989. [1] By the time of his death, it had "4,800 discount stores in 25 states." [1]
His father, August Caruso, worked in the landscape business and decided that the weather in the Mid-Atlantic was problematic and moved the family to Los Angeles, California in the mid-1920s. They first moved to East Los Angeles but soon settled in the Silver Lake neighborhood where Henry and his brothers, Albert and Lawrence, were raised.
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Robert Dollar, also known as Captain Robert Dollar (1844–1932), was a Scottish-American industrialist born in Bainsford, Falkirk, Scotland. The title "Captain" was honorary and he was called the "Grand Old Man of the Pacific".
The National Dollar Stores were unusual because the majority ownership and all management was Chinese, and about 90% of the clerks were Caucasian. [2] Shoong helped a great number of Chinese people, many from his own Long Du district, come to America and provided them and their families with housing and education.