The arrival of a Dollar General discount store in Royalton, which has been rumored for months, is now on hold.
That’s either good news or bad, depending on how you feel about a large patch of grass off Route 14 being plowed under to make room for a national chain retailer that sells everything from frozen fish sticks to antifreeze.
Dollar General is “reviewing the opportunity to add a new store in Windsor County, but we have not committed to doing so just yet,” a spokesperson said in an email response to questions I sent to the company’s headquarters in Goodlettsville, Tenn., on Thursday. “Based on our current timeline, we anticipate having a final decision by late fall 2022.”
Part of me wants to believe there’s an upside to adding another Dollar General to the eight— by my count — already in the Upper Valley.
For bargain hunters, particularly folks struggling to make ends meet, Dollar General is a go-to stop for…
