25 Michigan Family Dollar stores will be sold off soon

[mtburb]

As Dollar Tree has now officially acquired Family Dollar, a large number of Family Dollar stores across the country will be sold off to avoid a total monopoly in those areas. 25 of these are in Michigan, quoted from a news article that released the complete list of stores to be sold off:

1606 M 139 Benton Harbor MI 49022-5716
1181 E Bristol Rd Burton MI 48529-1128
10220 Gratiot Ave Detroit MI 48213-3211
4705B Conner St Detroit MI 48215-2028
12815 E Jefferson Ave Detroit MI 48215-2754
6365 W Vernor Hwy Detroit MI 48209-2002
1727 E State Fair Avenue Detroit MI 48203-1263
20900 Gratiot Avenue Eastpointe MI 48021-2857
20735 Wyoming St Ferndale MI 48220-2141
4451 Breton Rd Se Grand Rapids MI 49508-5273
1625 Leonard St Ne Grand Rapids MI 49505-5633
9028 Joseph Campau St Hamtramck MI 48212-3727
22818 John R Road Hazel Park MI 48030
14101 Woodward Avenue Highland Park MI 48203-2930
1006 S Washington Ave Holland MI 49423-5204
27425 Michigan Ave Inkster MI 48141-2201
5032 S. Cedar Street Lansing MI 48910-5479
15399 Merriman Road Livonia MI 48154
6444 N Saginaw St Mount Morris MI 48458-2410
22100 Coolidge Hwy Oak Park MI 48237-2813
5003 S Westnedge Avenue Portage MI 49002
3545 Dixie Hwy Saginaw MI 48601-4204
14686 Telegraph Rd. Taylor MI 48180-4636
1918 Venoy Rd S Westland MI 48186-4600
1540 28th St. Sw Wyoming MI 49509-2764

Could possibly see a few more vacant buildings soon...

[yupislyr]

Except the very story you cite says the stores are not being closed, at least not right now. They are being sold to a third party and rebranded as Dollar Express.

[313WX]

Except the very story you cite says the stores are not being closed, at least not right now. They are being sold to a third party and rebranded as Dollar Express.

Yeah, that makes more sense.

It's the same thing that happened to the Farmer Jack and Kroger stores in the city when they closed [[the Chaldeans purchased them and operated them).

[jjaba]

The Gujaratis from India are on the case. The new owners will wear a new colored bindi.
There are now over 100,000 East Indian-Americans living in Michigan. Although many of them are in high tech. back shops, they also are very good at retail.

Hindu Temples have risen in Troy and Novi, Michigan. Good sized populations live in Novi, Troy, Farmington Hills, Canton, Redford Twp., W. Bloomfield, Garden City, Sterling Hts.. and some around Hamtramck.

In a back bedroom in a house in Redford, the family meeting will jump at the opportunity. You heard it here first. [[all the old motels are already taken.) Children raised in those old motels are running Hiltons now. Amazing.
jjaba.

[jjaba]

The Gujaratis from India are on the case. The new owners will wear a new colored bindi.
There are now over 100,000 East Indian-Americans living in Michigan. Although many of them are in high tech. back shops, they also are very good at retail.

Hindu Temples have risen in Troy and Novi, Michigan. Good sized populations live in Novi, Troy, Farmington Hills, Canton, Redford Twp., W. Bloomfield, Garden City, Sterling Hts.. and some around Hamtramck.

In a back bedroom in a house in Redford, the family meeting will jump at the opportunity. You heard it here first. [[all the old motels are already taken.) Children raised in those old motels are running Hiltons now. Amazing.
jjaba.

[jjaba]

Mention was made of Chaldeans, another candidate for the takeover. There are 121,000 Chaldeans living in SE Michigan. They're from Syria and Iraq. There are 8 Chaldean Catholic Churches here. The neighborhood of Chaldean Town is Seven Mile Road from John R over to Woodward Avenue in Detroit. Chaldeans have significant numbers in Oak Park, Southfield, Troy, W. Bloomfield, Walled Lake, Hazel Park, Rochester Hills, Ferndale, Warren, Farmington Hills, and Ann Arbor. Ofcourse, they are good at retail also. Many were recruited by the Ford Motor Co. River Rouge Plant in the 1920s.
Chaldeans made their way to Chicago and San Deigo also.
jjaba on the Westside.

[Danny]

This means Dollar General is winning, YAY!

[Hypestyles]

The Gujaratis from India are on the case. The new owners will wear a new colored bindi.
There are now over 100,000 East Indian-Americans living in Michigan. Although many of them are in high tech. back shops, they also are very good at retail.

Hindu Temples have risen in Troy and Novi, Michigan. Good sized populations live in Novi, Troy, Farmington Hills, Canton, Redford Twp., W. Bloomfield, Garden City, Sterling Hts.. and some around Hamtramck.

In a back bedroom in a house in Redford, the family meeting will jump at the opportunity. You heard it here first. [[all the old motels are already taken.) Children raised in those old motels are running Hiltons now. Amazing.
jjaba.

More of these people need to lay roots in Detroit proper. Buy homes, apartment buildings, open small businesses, restaurants, build Hindu temples. Make urban Detroit more diverse.

[softailrider]

I guess dollar store can be considered decent retail. I guess they're better then crappy party stores, wig shops and hair braiding places. So I guess then I'm sorry to see them close.

[Danny]

More of these people need to lay roots in Detroit proper. Buy homes, apartment buildings, open small businesses, restaurants, build Hindu temples. Make urban Detroit more diverse.

The problem is since most of the regional job base [[Automation Alley) has been downsized during the last 50 years. They many ethnic families can't build their communities in Detroit. This is also due [[ after the 1967 riots); to racial problems, xenophobia, more black folks moving into Detroit neighborhoods, white flight to the suburbs, poor schools, awful police response, corrupt city government, demarcation, neighborhood blockbusting, slum clearance, restrictive covenants, auto insurance redlining, high taxation, high violent street crime ect... Unless these every urban problems can be solved, Detroit will not reach its diverse roots. This city is not going be like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York City. Forget it the best Detroiters and suburbanites can do is rebuild, revitalize, cope and hope. It least will still are the renaissance city.

[Zacha341]

These discount stores [[unlike the true one-dollar per item stores like Dollar Tree) are a great asset to the city. Many sell brand names [[Dollar General does) and offer an alternate to CVS and Walgreens higher prices and everyone cannot get to Target. I always preferred Dollar General over Family Dollar.

Dollar General has better products, more variety [[I used to find Iam cat food reduced there). And better security. Family Dollar was legend for first-of-the-month robberies and shootings [[including that double murder of the two staff persons in Dearborn a couple of years back). They were apparently too cheap to have a security guard at their stores.

I guess dollar store can be considered decent retail. I guess they're better then crappy party stores, wig shops and hair braiding places. So I guess then I'm sorry to see them close.

[Zacha341]

Yes, they were the superior of that kind of store IMO.

This means Dollar General is winning, YAY!

[JBMcB]

This means Dollar General is winning, YAY!

His quartermasters are playing their pennyfarthing whistles on to victory! He must, however, watch out for incoming salvos from Loonie Admiral from across the river.