Over the past 30 years, the chain has become an indelible part of Canadian life
In the 15-plus years I’ve been a mom, there’s no place I’ve spent more time in than Dollarama. To my children, particularly when they were younger, our local outlet—and not, in fact, Disney World—was the most magical place on Earth, filled with art supplies and duct tape and tiny wooden boxes, plastic fidget spinners, Pokémon merch and gazillions of other products they begged me to buy on every trip.
The Rossys know retail. Neil’s great-grandfather fled Turkish-occupied Lebanon in the early 1900s and settled in Montreal, peddling brooms and other everyday items before opening his first general store in 1910. More than 80 years later, Neil’s dad, Larry—in charge of the family business since 1973—opened a 2,000-square-foot dollar store in a village in the Gaspé as a bit of an experiment. Needless to say, it was a hit.
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