Some Communities Resist Dollar-Chain ‘Invasion’
New research claims the discount retail chains known as “dollar stores” are not having a positive impact on the communities where they are sprouting like weeds.
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Suspect Helps Hyperventilating Employee During Armed Robbery
A man involved with robbing a Fort Wayne Family Dollar store took a moment to try and help calm a worker who was hyperventilating after she was forced to open the store at gunpoint around 6 a.m. Monday, May 18. According to the police report, the worker was … Read More
UPDATE: Silver Lake Fire Department Called To Family Dollar
Silver Lake Fire Department has been called to the Family Dollar Store on Jefferson Street, for smoke inside the store. According to Silver Lake Fire Chief Morris Jones the smoke was caused by a belt on a fan blower unit. No fire was found after searching the building … Read More
Wearing Stolen Clothes Leads To Woman’s Arrest
A woman was arrested in Battle Creek, Michigan, Jan. 19 wearing clothes that were stolen from one of two businesses she had broken into earlier in the day, according to police. The female suspect was caught on security cameras shortly after midnight at Family Dollar and then again … Read More
Eagle Causes Gas Leak
An inflatable eagle on the roof of the Family Dollar complex in Syracuse is suspected to have caused a gas line to break overnight, but it was not noticed until this morning. Syracuse/Turkey Creek Fire Territory Fire Department was called at 9:21 a.m. today to Family Dollar, Pickwick … Read More
Bourbon Police Arrest 3 Shoplifters
Three people were taken into custody in Bourbon last week in two separate shoplifting incidents at the Family Dollar store. The first arrest of Tonia Tillotson, 44, of Bourbon, happened Thursday afternoon after the manager of Family Dollar notified the Bourbon Police Department that she was putting items … Read More