Discount Retailers Lead The Pack In Store Openings This Year

Nearly 2,780 stores are slated to open nationwide in 2019, and roughly 1,800 of them, more than half, will be part of discount chains.

Leading the way in number of planned stores this year are Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Aldi and Five Below, in that order, according to Coresight Research data, as reported by CBS.

Dollar General outdistances the others by a considerable margin, with 975 stores opening in 2019. Dollar Tree is planning 350 new stores this year.