Kennedy Smith Gets Oddly Specific about Dollar Stores - Institute for Local Self-Reliance

When the dollar store across the street from her home closed, cultural pundit Meredith Lynch started wondering what was going on with dollar stores and whether they are good or bad for communities. She asked ILSR senior researcher Kennedy Smith to answer her dollar store questions on the April 10, 2025 episode of Lynch’s Oddly Specific podcast. Listen below or find the whole episode at Oddly Specific.

“I’ve been doing this for five years, and I probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen people in a community want a dollar store.”

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