Dollar Stores and Retail Evolution Revisited

The much-maligned retail concept is growing into a new and better one.

Back in February, I wrote about the evolution of the dollar store as a retail concept, and how dollar stores are not as extractive and predatory as they’re often portrayed. Over the last decade or two, the concept has matured, with a fuller line of merchandise and, most interestingly, a foray into the fresh grocery business.

As I wrote:

...it is almost as…