Dollar Tree
| 12:30PM 7/08/2011
Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge for any consumer, so Consumer Ally has collected them all in one place for you to check each week.
Here is this week's roundup:
Mizuno USA Inc. recalled 131,000 Mizuno Supreme Series and Ballpark Pro baseball and softball...
| 6:00AM 12/04/2010
Thrifty shoppers looking for low prices on basics are frequently passing up the big boxes of Walmart for the tighter aisles of their local dollar stores. The cheaper upstarts have replaced no-name products with nationally known brands and revamped their interiors to lure in a new crop of bargain hungry customers.
| 6:00AM 10/28/2010
Dollar Tree is recalling nearly 700,000 Halloween-themed battery-powered lanterns over concerns they could start fires, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
The plastic lanterns were molded to look like either a pumpkin, ghost or skull. The CPSC said the bulbs can overheat and Dollar...
| 10:00AM 10/25/2010
Fund manager Neil Hennessy believes investors should target retail stocks that are likely to thrive in slow-growth economic conditions -- but which also stand to benefit when the economy picks up again. Here are some of his favorites.
| 11:38AM 10/19/2010
Flashlights for kids that project images of Spiderman or other characters sold at Dollar Tree stores are being recalled because they can catch fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
It's part of a not-so-curious pattern of poorly made, imported junk marketed to kids that can have...
| 5:49AM 8/16/2010
Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Monday (last updated at 8:14 a.m. Eastern time):
IPO's Success Falls To New CEO: As General Motors speeds toward its public stock offering, newly named CEO Daniel Akerson will need to convince shareholders that the...
| 2:00PM 8/15/2010
The earnings spotlight falls on retailers this week, and expectations are high for many of them, including Abercrombie & Fitch and Dollar Tree, which has benefited from the recession and slow recovery.
| 10:00AM 8/13/2010
Dollar Tree has been making significant changes in the way it does business online. As reported earlier, you can now pay through PayPal when ordering online, its customer support line has just recently been made available to customers 24/7, and a new bulk arts and crafts section was added to the...
| 1:00PM 7/13/2010
Okay, it's still only part way into summer and most of us don't want to be thinking about the approach of September, but the fact remains, the new school year is less than two months away and, once again, Operation Homefront is on the front lines, working to ensure that the children of military...
| 1:15PM 7/08/2010
Publicity stunt or penny-pinching? That's the question being asked about Dollar Tree's decision to discontinue playing music in its 3,899 stores.
In response to customer complaints on its Facebook page, Dollar Tree explained the decision to remove music from its store:
"... keeping our expenses...