Dollar General’s core consumers are “always strained” due to their economic status but also resourceful, CEO Todd Vasos said.

My previous view on Dollar General primarily focused on the failure of its business model in the modern economy. In short, the company is facing a "death from a thousand cuts." I pointed to poor ...

When I first started to rent stores to Dollar General in 1992, the Nashville-based retailer had around 1,500 stores. Fast forward to now where the company has more than 20,000 stores (1,889 in ...