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This will negatively effect every Family Dollar in America. Shoppers remember horrors like this. I don't live near any of the effected Family Dollars, but I'll never step foot in another one regardless of where it's located.
I hardly think rats in a warehouse is unique to Dollar Tree. I got something from Amazon once that looked like the bag had been chewed open.
They needed to adopt some cats if they are allowed. Sounds like they could spay/neuter a whole colony and keep them well fed with rodents even if they had to build them an outdoor shelter.
This is disgusting. I'm curious if the business will survive.
On the lighter side of things, my house has been described by The Men from A B C as very well sealed. When the infrequent field mouse makes it inside, I can picture something like this .........
A CAT! Well, I'm a young, super fast field mouse! I can stay ahead of one old, sleepy cat................
...............(rounds the corner and meets the young ins of The Dirty Half Dozen)......
West Memphis warehouse is where the rodents are coming from.
Stores in the South are most effected.
Anyone got a coupla hundred Jack-Russel terriers?
I saw this show where the pest control guy had a bunch of minks - those things went nuts catching a lot of rats in short time and they could get into small areas. I guess mink are considered ace rat hunters, I had no idea they could be trained though.
But lots of people will still go there. Those who do not read news and those who don't have a choice, because the Family Dollar or any other dollar store is the only one available in their area, especially in rural areas.
This type of stores are expanding rapidly lately.
It may seem like there's already one everywhere you look. Their business is booming. Nearly 1 in 3 new stores opening in the US is a Dollar General. Communities feel choked by them.
Dollar General opened 1,000 new stores last year and has 1,050 more in the works for 2021. Dollar Tree, which owns Family Dollar, added roughly 500 new dollar stores in 2020 and plans on opening 600 more this year.
The CEO is making $1.3M a year.
I couldn't imagine buying a crapton of food, at any of those dollar store chains. Sure DG, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree are fun to browse every so infrequently, but the Family Dollar situation(where a lot of food had to be recalled) is EXACTLY why I wouldn't trust buying food at any of those stores myself.
Might as well copy off what some beer microbreweries do, and adopt cats to live there, and chase off rodents that try to sneak inside these warehouses IMO.
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Shocking isn't it.
