there's a huge segment that feels that they can shop in places like flodollar tree and general.he price of gas helps but people are spending that at lower value stores rather than you will grading or they're of course making their homes look a little better. plus the federal reserve is about to raise the interest rates and you have to believe that more people will soon be shopping at the dollar store again. not less as car payments and mortgages and credit card debt are are identify higher. put it together and this is a strong one for the dollar tree and general. however, even though that the companies are in the same line of business, the story lines are different over the last year. remember after an intense bidding war, they were red i do rest the family dollar for $8.5 billion. this deal transformed the industry from a three way competition into a two way as dollar tree was the number one with $19 billion in revenue. more than 13,000 stores across the u.s. and canada. now, i have been a big fan of the family dollar deal because fdo is a undermanagement operation. they can ge