Dollar General Corporation reported total retail sales for the May four-week period ended June 1, 2007, equaled $733.1 million, an increase of 6.0 percent over sales of $691.8 million for the four-week period ended June 2, 2006.
For the fiscal 2007 four-week period, same-store sales increased 4.1 percent compared to a 1.9 percent increase in the four-week fiscal 2006 period.
Excluding sales in 122 stores, which are in the process of closing as part of the Company's store revitalization efforts, same-store sales increased 3.5 percent in the fiscal 2007 May period.
For the seventeen-week period ended June 1, 2007, Dollar General total retail sales increased 5.8 percent to $3.01 billion from $2.84 billion for the seventeen-week period ended June 2, 2006. Same-store sales for the seventeen-week period increased 2.8 percent.
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