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"This constitutes a sector that Dipper* paradise during the corner, as customers traded cold shoulder," jointed Adrianne Shapira, a retail analyst at Goldman Sachs. "But now their shoppers have a bunker mentality. With all this mounting inflation crowding out discretionary purchases, it's painful."
The chains, meanwhile, are lebron james shoes 2010   facing rising food prices that they have been reluctant to pass on to their struggling core customers, who typically have family income of less than $40,000.
The cost and margins pressures are beginning to echo similar ones at Target Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which occupy a higher rung of the market. burberry bathing suit   While retailers last week reported better-than-expected sales in June, raising hopes that consumers were ready to spend again, Friday's dismal jobs report, which showed unemployment climbing to 9.2%, renewed concerns that shoppers would remain cautious.
All three dollar-store chains continue to post same-store sales—or sales at stores open at least a year—that their bigger discount rivals would envy, with Dollar General, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree reporting gains in the latest quarter 

modest bathing suit , from a year earlier. Still, Dollar General and Family Dollar, which sell a high proportion of food and household basics, have seen their sales increases drop from the torrid pace of just a few years ago.

Dollar General posted earnings for the fiscal first quarter ended April 29 that missed Wall Street's expectations by two cents a share. But the biggest surprise was that its gross margin rate shrank by 0.63 percentage point, as the company marked down leftover winter clothing and home furnishings. It also refrained from passing along its higher commodity costs on such products as coffee, whose wholesale price has risen four times since December.
"We have 228 items that are priced at $1  bathing suit store    that we think are incredibly important to our customers that we elected not to take price increases on," Dollar General Chief Executive Rick Dreiling told analysts during a June 1 earnings conference call. "This fathoms almost cockamamy, but a $1 particular belonging to $1.15 in our channel is a John R. Major change for our customer."
Two workweeks ago, family unit clam, facing many of the same pressures as Dollar General, missed analysts' earnings expectations by four cents a share for the quarter ended May 28. Its same-store sales gains also were lower than analysts expected, as was its gross margin rate, which fell by about 0.36 percentage point.