This Grand Strand area will soon be getting a new Dollar Tree store

Surfside Beach is getting a new Dollar Tree.

A new sign has been constructed in a shopping center that includes Homespun Crafter’s Mall, Burkes Outlet, Piggly Wiggly, Family Dollar and others. People have been visible inside the store preparing for its opening, which is scheduled for July 11, according to Kayleigh M. Painter, Dollar Tree’s media relations manager.

The Dollar Tree is being prepared at 118 U.S. Hwy 17 North.

Dollar Tree acquired Family Dollar in 2015 and the two now exist under the same corporate umbrella.

According to a Fox Business report, the Chesapeake, Virginia company in March announced it would be closing 390 Family Dollar stores while transitioning 200 more into Dollar Tree shops. In May, Dollar Tree — which touts 15,000 stores in North America — held a national management hiring event that it said coincides with plans to open hundreds of stores annually moving forward.

Painter told The Sun News that the Family Dollar store in the Surfside Beach shopping center is not undergoing any operational changes by way of the addition of the 8,643-foot Dollar Tree store.

Fox Business reported a little over a week ago that the company planned to renovate at least 1,000 Family Dollar stores while expanding its inventory. One of the major additions reportedly will be additional alcohol sales, which Fox Business said had been limited to 45 locations.

This story was originally published June 8, 2019 at 5:54 PM.