Category: Produce Blueprints

As dollar stores experiment with new formats and fresh product lineups, they’re also exploring higher price points that would allow them to offer more variety, but still at a price that beats the competition.

A major challenge for dollar retailers is many consumers, both regulars and new, often don’t realize the stores even carry fresh produce.

Two of the biggest challenges for dollar stores in the produce category are controlling costs and shrink.

While there are a number of factors spurring the growth of dollar stores, including lower prices and their proximity to shoppers, the pandemic has factored into the equation as well.

Fresh produce, while a difficult category under the dollar-store business model, can be beneficial for retailers and suppliers alike from a traffic and profitability standpoint.

Most shoppers in the dollar retail sphere are familiar with the top competitors: Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar. What they might not know is that one of the companies actually owns another.

Dollar stores are a force to be reckoned with, boasting more than 34,000 locations and counting.

In this article we’ll discuss scams called business email compromise or BEC scams, and identify best practices to help you and your business partners avoid similar misadventures.

So what really happened here? Why did this century-old company close its doors?

In the summer of 2019, H. Brooks and Company, LLC, New Brighton, MN, had entered into a definitive agreement to sell its stock and become a wholly owned subsidiary of New Harvest Foods, Inc.