👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Dollar Tree is dumping Family Dollar, ending their brief and disastrous merger. The $1 billion sale represents just a fraction of the purchase price from a decade ago.

Not all dollar stores are equal In the end, Dollarama fared well in Marketplace's test, always edging out Dollar Tree on prices and within pennies of Walmart in that comparison of 17 items.

Family Dollar is going it alone. The discount chain, which merged with Dollar Tree in 2015 after a $9 billion sale, has now been sold to two private equity firms. Ink dried on the $1 billion deal ...