Something tells me that the new Meredith NH, former bowling alley location, which for the last 45-years was the local bowling alley, will be doing lots of Meredith business with both the locals and the visiters. That location has huge visibilty from the street, and should have easy and fast parking because it is a stand alone store as opposed to a mall store. It's the type of place where you can get in and out fast, and it has a big inventory of all sorts of items and has low price points.
The sign already attached to the construction entrance says something like "No Curse Words and No Smoking Allowed inside this Store!" so it most likely has a long history for doing business on the poorer side of its' 6800 different 44-states locations starting in Charlotte, NC. As far as I know, Family Dollar does not carry any cigarettes, chewing tobacco, snuff, beer, wine, wine coolers, lottery tickets, or newspapers. They just sell general household merchandise, consumer products like health, cosmetics, canned and packaged food items, & frozen food items, and some pretty good 3" wide paints brushes for just two bucks.
If you were hoping that Whole Foods or Trader Joe's would be opening up at the big vacant store space between the Rite Aid and the Olympic Sports, then you just might be a little surprised that you actually like the new Family Dollar. It's not a Dollar Store, it's a well organized and clean store where your dollar goes further.
Old fashioned corn brooms for sweeping the floor for $5.50. That easily beats the prices at the nearby Aubuchon Hardware or even at Wal-Mart. Locally, it comes closest to resembling the old Ben Franklin store except for the craft items.
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