MATTHEWS, N.C., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Family Dollar Stores,
Inc. (NYSE: FDO), the fast growing North Carolina-based discount store chain,
reports opening 83 stores during the four-week period ended August 30, 2003.
With these additional stores, as of August 30, 2003, the Company operated
5,027 stores.
The 83 newest store locations are in the following states: 11 in Texas; 6
each in Florida and Michigan; 5 each in Arizona and Illinois; 4 each in
Colorado and Louisiana; 3 each in Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, New Mexico,
Pennsylvania and Utah; 2 each in New York, North Carolina, Ohio, West
Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming; 1 each in Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.
During the fiscal year ended August 30, 2003, the Company opened 475
stores and closed 64, for a net addition of 411 stores.
Family Dollar Stores, Inc. now operates stores in 43 states ranging as far
northwest as North Dakota, northeast to Maine, southeast to Florida, and
southwest to Arizona.
SOURCE Family Dollar Stores, Inc.
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CONTACT:
George R. Mahoney, Jr., Executive Vice
President of Family Dollar Stores, Inc., +1-704-814-3252
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