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The True Cost of Dollar Stores

By Alec MacGillis · The New Yorker · June 2020

#14 in 2020·#4 in Economics

The True Cost of Dollar Stores

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"Discount chains are thriving, Alec MacGillis writes. But what do they do to poor communities?"

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