Dollar General and rival Dollar Tree, which operates the Dollar Store and Family Dollar chains, notched a combined $33.7 billion in sales during the first six months of 2023.

Dollar General will improve safety protocols in stores and pay $12 million in penalties in a sweeping settlement with the Department of Labor over the discount chain’s long history of putting ...

Jerry Jones also has strong feelings about Dollar General. He, too, grew up in Ebony and, for several years, was Ms. Hartley’s classmate at the local public school.