CVS shutters 19 stores, while dollar stores surge across the U.S.

Dollar stores continued to open rapidly across the U.S. in the second half of August, with Dollar General and Dollar Tree opening more than 100 locations combined. 

CVS reported the largest number of store closings at 19. The pharmacy chain opened four locations during the period.

Dollar General opened 62 stores and closed eight, mainly throughout the Midwest, South, Southwest, and Northeast, and Dollar Tree’s 44 new stores were primarily located in California. All but one of Dollar Tree’s five store closures were in the Northeast. 

Meanwhile, Food Lion closed nine locations across the Southern states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. 

Aldi continued with its steady stream of store openings with six locations, tying BJ’s six store openings for the month. 

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Here’s a breakdown of how many stores opened or closed in each chain this past month:

This interactive look at the grocery landscape comes via a monthly partnership with ScrapeHero.com, an online data analytics firm that monitors the websites of retailers across the country to keep track of their locations. ScrapeHero provides fully managed enterprise-grade web scraping services. The company provides complete data pipeline processing, from data extraction to custom robotic process automation and even building custom AI models from the data. This project is in no way intended to be a complete map of every grocery chain and only represents changes in store count based on what each grocer is reporting to the general public online.