Same store. Same reaction.  Slightly different argument.  From the AJC…

When residents in part of south Cobb’s Austell area found out that the new building going up along Six Flags Drive was slated to be a discount retail chain store, they went into action.

E-mails flew, county officials were contacted, meetings were convened and a community was engaged.

“It was disappointing,” said Brittany Innes, 29, who has lived in the Chimney Hill subdivision, which is adjacent to the store site at the corner of Six Flags Drive and Factory Shoals Road, for two years. “This is an area of working-class minorities, yet you won’t bring in better businesses? You continue to bring in stores like Dollar General because we’re seen as underserved.”

…Innes and her neighbors, also homeowners from neighborhoods surrounding the store site, would have preferred a major grocery store, higher-end retail, a bank or some county service come to the corner instead of the discount store that has a reputation of being located in poor neighborhoods, they said.

Hmmm…me thinks that Dollar General might need a multi-million dollar image makeover.

Let’s start with taking the “Dollar” out of the name and changing it to something Swedish.  How about the Swede’s word for frugal?  “Sparsam”!  Then change the sign colors from an early 1980s yellow and black to something that incorporates a lot of bright blue and presto!  A mini, neighborhood Ikea!

Thanks to Jenn for pointing out this article.