Approximately 1,000 Family Dollar and Dollar Tree stores are scheduled to be closed after “botched” business decisions and a “surprise fourth-quarter loss,” with the company’s shares taking a tumble.
Dollar Tree outbid competitor Dollar General to buy Family Dollar for over $8 billion in 2015, but the merger has failed to produce good results.
Company executives announced to investors Wednesday that about 600 Family Dollar stores will be shut down in the first half of this year, with an additional 370 Family Dollars 30 Dollar Trees to follow in the coming years.
“This dramatic cull is the coup de grâce in the rather botched acquisition of the Family Dollar chain, which has caused Dollar Tree nothing but hassle since it was completed back in 2015,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, in a statement obtained by the Washington Post.
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