2000s
In the 2000s, Dollar Tree made several acquisitions that would prove to be excellent decisions later on. In 2000, we acquired Dollar Express, a Philadelphia-based company, in 2003, we acquired Greenbacks, Inc., a Salt Lake City company, and then in 2006, we acquired 138 Deal$ stores from SUPERVALU INC.
We opened our first North Dakota store in 2004, putting us in all 48 contiguous states. In 2006, we celebrated our 20th year of retailing at a $1.00 price point and opened our 3,000th store. In 2007, we reached a market cap of $3.29 billion in sales. Finally, in 2008, our organization earned a place on the Fortune 500 list and had the number-one performing stock that year. By the end of the 2000s, Dollar Tree had moved 100 spots on the Fortune 500 list and opened/purchased seven Distribution Centers in California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Washington.
