I disagree...I worked for two commercial landlords who built out stores to be rented to Dollar Store chains throughout the Northeast and MidWest. Typically they acquired dirt cheap, stand alone, distressed properties that were eye sores in the community, paid off city counselors under the table so they could obtain all approvals, and then the Dollar Store reps would come in all doe eyed proclaiming they were tasked with helping under served communities and were just trying to help.

Then, when they did open, they hired at most 15 people to run the store (a full time manager and mostly part time employees) and the landlord did the absolute bare minimum maintaining the property. Only if the community was strong enough to demand protections, did the Dollar Store hire off duty cops for securty. And most of the products they were selling were near or past expiration date, full of toxic substitutes/fillers, and considered after life shelf products repackaged as new.

It's a predatory business, targeting under served communities, designed to squeeze out their last dollar. The other retail chain my commercial landlords built stores for? Rent-A-Center...which was basically a predatory loan company designed as a simple furniture/electronics for rent store. Rent-A-Center knew what they were doing, and would often hit us up on locations. It's an egregious business model.

But man, the calls we would receive from Dollar Stores getting robbed, shot up, and people getting murdered were extremely high. And my bosses didn't give a fuck, unless the complaints got so bad. But their attorneys had a list of pre-built, template responses to counter any liability.

I know what I know because I saw it myself and I worked in the trenches. It's a shit show of greed, keeping one community sick and poor, while an Elite few got rich living comfortably in the suburbs.