COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Cal Turner founded J. L. Turner & Son, Inc. in 1939, and opened the first Dollar General store in Springfield, Kentucky in June 1955. Today, Dollar General Corporation operates as the country’s largest small-box discount retailer with stores in the southern, southwestern, midwestern, and eastern United States. The stores are typically located in local neighborhoods and small communities deemed “too small” for big-box retailers. Dollar General offers both name-brand and generic merchandise—including off-brand goods and closeouts of name-brand items. Although it has the word “dollar” in the name, Dollar General is not a Dollar Stores. Many of its offerings are priced at more than one dollar. However, goods are usually sold at set price points of penny items and up to the range of 50 to 60 dollars, not counting phone cards and loadable store gift cards. The company provides paper and cleaning products (paper towels, bath tissues, paper dinnerware, trash and storage bags, laundry, and other home cleaning supplies), packaged food and perishables (cereals, canned soups and vegetables, sugar, flour, milk, eggs, and bread), beverages, snacks (such as candies, cookies, crackers, salty snacks, and carbonated beverages), over-the-counter medicines, personal care products (soap, body wash, shampoo, dental hygiene, and foot care products), pet supplies and pet food products, seasonal products (decorations, toys, batteries, small electronics, greeting cards, and stationery) prepaid cell phones and accessories, gardening supplies, hardware, automotive, home office supplies, home products (kitchen supplies, cookware, small appliances, light bulbs, storage containers, frames, candles, and craft supplies, as well as kitchen, bed, and bath soft goods), and casual, everyday apparel (for infants, toddlers, girls, boys, women, and men, as well as socks, underwear, disposable diapers, shoes, and accessories). Since the turn of the century, Dollar General has added stores that carry a greater selection of grocery items, which operate under the name “Dollar General Market”. In 2007 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) acquired Dollar General, privatized the company for restructuring, and took the company public again in 2009. As of March 3, 2017, Dollar General operated 13,429+ stores in 44 states. The company ranks 159th within the Fortune 500 Companies. Fiscal 2016 revenues exceeded $21.9 billion with net income of $1.25 billion