Pressing Pause on Dollar Stores
But in what has become a trend, lawmakers in numerous towns and cities across the country are putting the brakes on dollar store expansion, convinced it is more a detriment than a benefit to their communities.
Cyndi Nguyen, who represents East New Orleans on the New Orleans City Council, is one. Her district houses one-third of the city's 36 chain-run dollar stores. A dollar store shopper herself, she says she thinks "they're great. But to saturate a community, they kind of went overboard."

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