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title: "Hundreds of Family Dollar Stores Will be Closed, Renamed"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/663a0db0-7f02-4044-9e77-00cec2b87b12
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/hundreds-of-family-dollar-stores-will-be-closed-renamed-2709355
category: "Specialty retail"
industry: "Retail"
segment: "Specialty retail"
published: 2019-03-06T18:13:47.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:32:25.960Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/119ebcf3ba5385e590b290c88c69a7131786.jpg
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# Hundreds of Family Dollar Stores Will be Closed, Renamed

**TL;DR:** Almost 400 Family Dollar stores will be closed in 2019 and approximately 200 more will have their name changed. Dollar Tree acquired Family Dollar in 2015 and had already closed 84 underperforming stores in the fourth quarter of 2018.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-03-06. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/hundreds-of-family-dollar-stores-will-be-closed-renamed-2709355).*

## Story

Almost 400 Family Dollar stores will be closed in 2019 and approximately 200 more will have their name changed, according to a USA Today report.

The news comes as some major retail companies announce their own store closures. While business may not be booming for some of these brick and mortar locations, the closures mean that a great deal of business real estate will open up.

Dollar Tree already closed 84 underperforming Family Dollar stores in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the article. Family Dollar, which was acquired by Dollar Tree in 2015, will also test increased prices in some stores, according to the article.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Retail (sector)
- acquisition (topic)
- USA TODAY (company)
- rebranding (topic)
- store closures (topic)
- Dollar Tree (company)
- Family Dollar (company)
- retail real estate (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/hundreds-of-family-dollar-stores-will-be-closed-renamed-2709355). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/663a0db0-7f02-4044-9e77-00cec2b87b12).