Dollar Tree’s 9,000th store opened last year within a few miles of a Louis Vuitton, a steakhouse selling $525 Wagyu beef and Audi, Porsche and Ferrari dealerships, where the average car costs more than what a typical Dollar Tree shopper makes in a year.
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An employee lays out goods at the Dollar Tree in Plano, Texas.
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A Dollar Tree store is seen Jan. 12 in Portage, Michigan.
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Methodology: Bloomberg News estimated Dollar Tree store opening dates by matching unique store numbers, when available, with investor reports on when new stores opened. The total number of per year store openings was based on figures from Dollar Tree’s 2025 investor day report.
Incomes are median household incomes as reported in the U.S. Census 5-year American Community Survey for the estimated year of the store opening. Bloomberg News’s analysis compares the median household income of the ZIP code tabulation area and that of the metropolitan area of each store address for that year. 2024 and 2025 numbers are adjusted from 2023 dollars, the latest data available.
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