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People walk by a Family Dollar store in Brooklyn on March 26, 2025 in New York City. The discount retail chain Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar to a pair of private equity firms for $1 billion.

Dollar Tree’s decade-long effort to fold the Family Dollar chain into its business is ending after agreeing to sell the bargain store chain to a pair of private equity firms for $1 billion.