Dollar General closes North 30th store, opens new store in former Family Video building on Broadway

QUINCY — The city’s newest Dollar General opened its doors Monday after closing the doors of another Dollar General last week.

The store at 2000 Broadway welcomed its first customers at 11:30 a.m. Monday. The six employees were transferred from the store at 330 N. 30th, which closed last Wednesday. 

“We worked really, really hard and long to do this,” assistant store manager Maylean Brock said. “I’m talking about real long. We had some kinks, but that’s the norm for opening a new store and getting it prepared for business. I think we did a wonderful job.”

Brock had previously worked for the 330 N. 30th store for four years before leaving the business. She returned in March to help get the new store ready.

Dollar General moved into the former Family Video building. Highland Ventures Ltd. announced in January its plans to close all Family Video stores around the nation.

Brock said the Broadway store’s early customers already noted one big difference from the North 30th location.

“Parking. Everybody says the parking,” she said. “I thought they would say that the new store is going to be a nice big building, and some of them did, but most of the majority of the customers said the parking is better.”

Brock also said the size of the store has grown from approximately 4,000 feet at North 30th to approximately 6,000 feet at the Broadway location. 

“When there was nothing in here, it looked like you could take two of the old stores and fit them in here,” she said. “The stuff that we brought from the other store didn’t come close to filling this store.”

The extra floor space allows the Broadway location to have coolers for soda, milk, eggs, ice cream, meats and other refrigerated items that weren’t offered at the North 30th store. 

“We’ve got coolers for days,” Brock said.

She added the Broadway store will take EBT (electronic bank transfers) for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Brock said the extra space allows the store to be better organized for customers.

“Things are spread out … not so condensed,” she said. “We’d have the fabric softener in one aisle and the detergent in another aisle. Now they’re together. We’d have the cat food in one aisle and the dog food in another aisle. Now they’re together.

“We’re liking it. it’s going to come together for us, and we’re going to make it all work.”

Dollar General has grown from opening its first store in Scottsville, Ky., in 1939 to having 17,266 stores nationwide as of February 2021. The company is headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tenn. Quincy has three other Dollar General stores — 2614 N. 12th, 600 Maine and 1335 S. 12th.