{"id":7209,"date":"2012-03-28T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2012-03-28T12:12:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:12:44","slug":"dollar-general-pushing-for-more-granite-state-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/03\/28\/dollar-general-pushing-for-more-granite-state-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar General Pushing For More Granite State Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7211\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Dollar General hopes to expand in New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/03\/3894455877_6713618b31.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7211\" title=\"Dollar General in Port St. Joe\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/03\/3894455877_6713618b31-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/03\/3894455877_6713618b31-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/03\/3894455877_6713618b31.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Judy Baxter \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dollar General hopes to expand in New Hampshire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Discount chain retailers have historically faced resistance in New Hampshire.\u00a0 But as <a title=\"Dollar General eyes N.H. expansion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhbr.com\/businessnewsstatenews\/955024-257\/dollar-general-eyes-n.h.-expansion.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Callahan reports for the <em>New Hampshire Business Review<\/em><\/a>, that&#8217;s not stopping Dollar General from drawing up ambitious expansion plans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dollar General, the nation&#8217;s largest chain of &#8216;small-box&#8217; stores that has faced some resistance in expanding to communities in New Hampshire, is planning to beef up its New Hampshire presence in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based company said it plans to open 625 new stores in 2012, about 80 of which will open in four new markets &#8212; New Hampshire, California, Nevada and Connecticut.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Callahan writes that the company didn&#8217;t return phone calls by deadline as she tried to determine how many stores the retailer wanted to establish in New Hampshire.\u00a0 Right now, out of 10,000 stores nationwide, there&#8217;s only one Dollar General in the Granite State, located in Nashua.\u00a0 Callahan reports that&#8217;s actually outside the company&#8217;s preferred business model, which is building in communities with 20,000 or fewer residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount chain retailers have historically faced resistance in New Hampshire.\u00a0 But as Kathleen Callahan reports for the New Hampshire Business Review, that&#8217;s not stopping Dollar General from drawing up ambitious expansion plans: &#8220;Dollar General, the nation&#8217;s largest chain of &#8216;small-box&#8217; stores that has faced some resistance in expanding to communities in New Hampshire, is planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":7211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}