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While most companies have beenforced to close stores In the United States, due to challenges exacerbated by the cocovio pandemic, Dollar General was on the opposite trajectory. The company has quickly developed across the country in recent years, making its way as the largest American retailer in terms of points of sale. AccordingForbes, Dollar General opensAbout three new stores Every day and now has more than 18,000 locations across the country. But in the midst of this extreme growth, the popular reduction chain was just forced to close some of its stores due to dangerous conditions. Read more to find out which "critical security problems" have led to the closure of these general locations in dollars.

Read this then:If you shop at Dollar General, prepare for this major closure, on July 18.

The rapid growth of Dollar General could highlight its popularity, but the company has been faced with its just part of the counterpoup for practices and conditions concerning. In April, the Ministry of Agriculture and Consumer Services of North Carolina (NCDA & CS) inflicted a fine on the company after discovering "Excessive errors in price scanning"To a general dollar in the state.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Then in May, an environment of environmental health environment for the reform of chemical policies and in Clean, Inc. revealed thatAt least 12 products Sold by the retailer at reduced prices has toxic chemicals.

Last month, the US Labor Ministry and Health Health (OSHA) cited general dollars stores in two different statistics for "serious dangers"This included rhythmic and blocked emergency exit doors.

Now, some general dollar stores are closed on other security problems.

Now, Dollar General closes certain locations in the United States due to dangerous conditions. On July 11, officials of the city of Euclid, Ohio, ordered the company ofImmediately closed One of its stores in the Green Road region due to the conditions of the company, Cleveland.com reported. "There were so many violations that we closed the store", building commissionerLaura Heilman Said at a meeting of the municipal council of Euclides, by Cleveland.com.

According to the media, another general store of the dollar in the city also closed the store on the same day due to similar conditions. Heilman said the commercial properties inspectorDoreen Simpson was sent to the second location on Mayfield Road in the middle of the Green Road store inspection. Simpson "returned to show me the photos [from the inside of the Mayfield Road store] and, in the meantime, the store had closed because they knew it was coming back," said Heilman.

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Euclid city officials said the two general dollars stores have a number of "Critical security problems, "CBBS-Affiliate Cleveland 19 News reported. These problems included blocked alleys, lack of access to electric panels and inaccessible fire extinguishers.

"For example, if there was an electric fire, the fire service could not access the main disconnection and the city code requires that the panel be easily accessible", "Keith Benjamin, told the Director of Community Development of the City of South Euclid, at News Outlet. "Many alleys have been completely blocked with stock trolleys, hampering the safe outing in an emergency. In addition, the fire extinguishers were blocked by stock trucks, making them completely useless in the case of a fire . "

Other city officials have noted that in terms of consumers, stores were unsanitary and had been informed for more than a year. "I tell you that they shouldn't even have a license to sell food because of dirt, wickedness,"Ruth Gray, president of the municipal council of Euclid, said, according to Cleveland.com. After a recent visit to the Green Road Store on July 3, Gray said: "If I had a dog, I wouldn't even let my dog ​​eat on this floor. It's so dirty."

At the meeting of the municipal council, Heilman said that the general locations of the dollar will be closed "until further notice", and it will be up to the stores to call the city officials "when they consider that it is enough Cleaned and that the dangers are deleted to have a re -inspection. " The commissioner said that, as far as she knows, the two stores belong to businesses.

"So our two dollars stores are closed at the moment," said Heilman, by Cleveland.com. "I don't know when they will reopen. It will be up to them to clean the stores and remove all the dangers."

Unfortunately, this means that the general stores of two dollars could remain permanently closed. According to Heilman, the two locations are rented and in buildings that do not have external or structural problems, so that the conditions that led to the closures of the two stores were the direct result of the reduction chain. "If they do not clean the stores, they can never reopen, and that's good too, because I am sure that someone else would take the place," said Heilman.

In a statement in Cleveland 19, Dollar General said that he hoped to stay in the region. "We are disappointed that our store standards in these places were not both our customers and our own expectations, and we hope to reopen soon to serve our customers and the southern Euclide district," said a Society spokesperson. "We apologize for any disadvantage that it could have caused and remain determined to be a positive trading partner and a good community neighbor."