The only dollar store I know of is Part Of The Problem.
I manage a couple of buildings my father owns that have become a catastrophe after the George Floyd riots. The cops, in a fit of pique, pulled off the streets of Minneapolis (presumably to teach us a lesson about how much we need them). And then they started quitting in droves. So for the past three plus years, there has been very little police presence on the streets, especially in the neighborhood these buildings are in (which used to have a beat patrol, two cops who walked the streets all day every day; they no longer have the manpower to have beat patrols).
As a result, drug dealers have taken over the block alongside one of the buildings, and they have owned it ever since. The day crew isn't so bad...pot dealers, pretty mellow, my caretaker knows them by now and gets along with them fairly well. But the night crew is hard-drugs dealers from competing gang, so they are loud, abusive, and there is gunfire, sometimes daily for months on end. Obviously, it is difficult to keep tenants under these circumstances, and the buildings are down to under 60% vacancies and falling. We're losing a fortune there, and the buildings are about to drive us out of business. About a year ago the cops started showing some interest, raiding the block a couple of times and occasionally parking a squad car there. But the dealers just scatter like roaches, and when the cops leave, the dealers come back.
The dollar store comes into the picture because there's one at the other end of the block, and the drug dealers have in effect taken it over. The sidewalk in front of its entrance is their headquarters, and they are now the store's only customers. The neighborhood has been trying to get it shut down, but unfortunately the Minneapolis City Council hates the police, and is convinced the only way to solve the crime issue is by getting rid of the cops altogether. In fact just this week they voted down a proposal by the mayor to fund retention and signing bonuses to bolster the police force (which is currently at barely half strength).
Forgive my rambling, but my father died last night and I haven't gotten much sleep. I guess the only good thing to come out of that is that now my brother and I can sell the buildings. Dad couldn't (or wouldn't) for tax reasons; he technically got the buildings for free when the person he sold them to in the 80s defaulted, so he would have to pay capital gains taxes on the full sale price, whereas we will only have to pay based on their value as of today...and given the crime situation in the neighborhood, we won't be able to get anywhere near the buildings' assessed value.