Dollar Stores Find Splurges Drying Up
Corrections & Amplifications</br></br>Dollar Tree Inc. met its earnings targets for its fiscal first quarter. A Marketplace article on Monday incorrectly said that Dollar Tree was among the deep-discount retailers that had missed their earnings projections.</br></br>(WSJ July 13, 2011)</br></br>Sales and profit growth have started to slump at the deep-discount retailers called dollar stores, after a robust performance during the recession, a sign that even fairly cheap toys and other small indulgences now are a stretch for some consumers.</br></br>In the past several weeks, Dollar General Corp., Family Dollar Stores Inc. and Dollar Tree Inc., the country's three largest chains that sell sharply discounted food, household staples and other items in modest-size stores, all have missed their quarterly earnings targets.