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| | Rex Mehta |
 | | First, there are dollar store chains, like 99 Cents Only Stores, the nation's oldest existing one-price retailer, in City of Commerce, CA (about 90 stores in Southern California and Nevada), Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. of Chesapeake, VA (the nation's largest single-price retailer, with more than 1,500 discount stores in 35 states), and Dollarland. |
 | | According to Miller, the larger dollar store players now have the opportunity to gain share from other channels, such as grocery or drug stores and independents, even as they take business away from other dollar stores which don't have the efficiencies of these large chains. |
 | | Dollar Tree is using acquisitions to move into a larger store format (about twice the size of existing stores); it bought the 100-plus store Dollar Express chain in 2000. |
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