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every year anyone Cal Turner, Jr. 12Jeff Jordan 5Steph Smith 1
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- ▶ 33:06 Steph Smith Um, but then you also see interesting cases like Dollar Generals getting into healthcare because they just have so many locations, or you see Walmart try, but then they're closing their clinics.
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
- ▶ 0:08 unnamed speaker In this episode, we wanted to dive into some of the lessons around one interesting story that continues to defy the general negative trend around physical retail, Dollar General, the American chain of dollar stores dating all the way back… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33 Jeff Jordan Dollar General has a market cap of about twenty eight billion dollars, revenue over twenty billion dollars. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:52 Cal Turner, Jr. The roots of the company go back to JL Turner, my grandfather, and JL Turner only had a third grade education. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:29 unnamed speaker Let's talk about when it turned into Dollar General. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:13 Cal Turner, Jr. Well, our stores are in all of those small rural communities throughout our country. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:58 unnamed speaker Given that Dollar General is ultimately, you know, kind of all about pricing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:01 unnamed speaker I want to talk a little bit about technology because you talk about introducing computers into the company early on, and your dad was very resistant to that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:51 Cal Turner, Jr. We had the broadest customer base given that we were selling the consumable basics because pretty much everybody uses them. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:06 Cal Turner, Jr. At the end of last year, 75% of the continental United States lived within five miles of a dollar general store. 4 times in the scene