Cal Turner, Jr.

Chairman, Cal Turner Family Foundation · 1 appearance on the record.

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Cal Turner, Jr. served as CEO and Chairman of Dollar General for over three decades, growing the business into a publicly traded retail chain with thousands of locations. He is the author of My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company.

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4 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Cal argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Cal Turner Jr. fired his brother as COO to avoid bankruptcy
“The hardest and toughest decision I ever had to make was the decision to fire my brother. Who was the chief operating officer, and the company was really in trouble. We were on the verge of chapter 11, and when you're in that situation, and the CEO and the COO…”
Cal Turner, Jr. Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:06 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail

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Everything Cal Turner, Jr. said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Cal Turner Jr. fired his brother as COO to avoid bankruptcy
“The hardest and toughest decision I ever had to make was the decision to fire my brother. Who was the chief operating officer, and the company was really in trouble. We were on the verge of chapter 11, and when you're in that situation, and the CEO and the COO…”
Cal Turner, Jr. Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:06 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cal Turner Jr.: Dollar General stores located near Walmart performed better
“No, no, we're in the same markets. In fact, our stores close to Walmart, it seemed to Do better than our stores that weren't close to a Walmart.”
Cal Turner, Jr. Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:11 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
Assertion Supported
75% of the US population lived near a Dollar General in 2017
“At the end of last year, 75% of the continental United States lived within five miles of a dollar general store.”
Cal Turner, Jr. Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:06 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
Assertion Supported
Dollar General founder J.L. Turner had a third-grade education
“The roots of the company go back to JL Turner, my grandfather, and JL Turner only had a third grade education.”
Cal Turner, Jr. Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:52 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
Insight
Cal Turner Jr.: Flat-dollar pricing helped low-income shoppers budget while browsing
“It's easy to keep up with how much you're spending and our struggling customers had to keep up with what they were spending even while they were in the store.”
Cal Turner, Jr. Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:14 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail Jan 2, 2019 12m
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