The Rise Of The Dollar Stores
Sheryl Huenster is a self proclaimed dollar store junkie. The Clifton mother of four makes the trek to various fixed price stores within a ten mile radius of her white clapboard home two or three times per week. I m an addict. I admit it. I can t go more than a week without visiting the stores, unless I m on vacation. You better believe that when I go to the Jersey Shore I know where the all the stores are in the Toms River area, she laughed. Years after the close of Woolworth s and other Five and Dime stores, dollar stores are filling the void by opening up around the country, but they seem almost ubiquitous to New Jersey. Many of the stores are operated by immigrants who have a knack for buying low priced goods overseas and having them shipped to the U.S. to sell for a dollar a piece. Like Woolworth s, the dollar stores carry...
