> They already run on a thin-staff, high-volume model.

Like every other retail business not targeting the top 5%.

And Dollar Tree and Dollar General are both publicly listed companies, not private equity.

Dollar Tree sold Family Dollar for $1B 10 years after buying it for $8.5B, a pretty big loss. Dollar Tree’s market cap is $25B, so a pretty negligible part of the national dollar store business is “private equity”.