Leon Levine, retail contrarian who founded Family Dollar, dies at 85
Leon Levine, a college dropout who in 1959 emptied his bank account of $3,000 to found Family Dollar, growing it from a single store in downtown Charlotte…
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Leon Levine, a college dropout who in 1959 emptied his bank account of $3,000 to found Family Dollar, growing it from a single store in downtown Charlotte…
He competed with malls and big-box discounters by focusing on lower-income neighborhoods in cities and rural areas.