A customer walks out of a Family Dollar store at Hickory Grove Market in Charlotte, N.C., in November 2005.
Mandatory Credit:	Ross Taylor/AP via CNN Newsource

A customer walks out of a Family Dollar store at Hickory Grove Market in Charlotte, N.C., in November 2005.
Mandatory Credit: Ross Taylor/AP via CNN Newsource

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Family Dollar and Dollar Tree closes 1,000 stores

Family Dollar, the struggling discount chain that caters to low-income customers predominantly in cities, will close about 1,000 stores.