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Dollar Tree Sold Lead-Infused Applesauce Pouches For Weeks After Recall, FDA Says
Despite a recall notice and multiple warnings from the Food and Drug Administration, Dollar Tree continued to sell applesauce pouches containing lead for weeks, federal officials say. The popular retail chain was issued a letter from the FDA this month regarding the WanaBana fruit puree pouches, distributed by Negasmart. "As described below, laboratory analysis of multiple lots of WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree pouches, including finished product samples collected from Dollar Tree stores, detected extremely high concentrations of lead," the letter reads. "... you conti…
Police & Fire
Man Accused Of Taking Pictures Up Woman's Shirt At East Farmingdale Store
A man has been accused of using his cellphone to take pictures up the skirt of a 43-year-old woman at a store on Long Island. The incident allegedly happened Thursday, May 9 at the Dollar Tree on Broadhollow Road in East Farmingdale. Following an investigation by First Squad detectives, New York City resident Christopher St. Surin, of Manhattan, was arrested on Friday, May 24, at approximately 9:50 p.m., said police. St. Surin, age 30, was charged with unlawful surveillance. He was scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip/ The investiga…
Business
Planters Nuts Recalled Due To Listeria Contamination Concerns
A pair of Planters nuts products are being recalled due to possible contamination with the bacteria that causes listeria. Hormel Foods Sales, LLC is voluntarily recalling the two Planters products that were produced at one of its facilities in April, according to an announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, sti…
Business
Family Dollar, Dollar Tree To Close 1,000 Stores
Discount chain Family Dollar and parent company Dollar Tree will close a combined 1,000 stores. Family Dollar will shut down 600 stores in 2024 and 370 stores over the next several years as store leases expire. Dollar Tree will close 30 locations as leases expire. The company made the announcement Wednesday morning, March 13. Family Dollar has around 8,000 US locations and Dollar Tree has The company said it initiated a review of its stores in the fourth quarter of 2023. It involved "identifying stores for closure, relocation, or re-bannering based on an evaluati…
Business
Recall Issued For Air Freshener Products Due To Injury, Laceration Hazards
A company has recalled about 67,000 air fresheners due to injury and laceration hazards. Reckitt issued a recall of AirWick Fresh New Day aerosol air fresheners in “Fresh Linen” and “Fresh Waters” scents on Thursday, Nov. 3. The recall includes products with batch code B22077-NJ and date code 18/03/22, which are printed on the bottom of the can. The company said a batch of the products is missing a corrosion inhibitor, which can cause corrosion, rupture of the can, and expulsion of the can's contents. Reckitt said it received five reports of incidents involving the products…
Business
Clorox Recalls Pine-Sol Cleaners Due To Infection-Causing Bacteria
Parent company Clorox is recalling eight Pine-Sol disinfectant cleaning products due to fears they may contain infection-causing bacteria, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced. To date, testing has identified bacteria in certain recalled products, including those produced between January 2021 and September 2022. Clorox produced approximately 37 million recalled products in that period, the CPSC said. The recalled products have date codes beginning with the prefix “A4” and followed by a five-digit number less than 22249. The products were sold in bottles of 28, 48, 60, 100…
Police & Fire
17-Year-Old Girl Nabbed For Knifepoint Robbery Of Taxi Driver On Long Island
An investigation into the armed robbery of a taxi driver on Long Island led to the arrest of a 17-year-old girl, police announced. On Dec. 8, 2021, in Riverhead, police said that a driver was robbed at knifepoint by a woman in the parking lot of the Dollar Tree on Old Country Road. A spokesperson from the Riverhead Police Department said that a teen suspect - whose name has not been released - was arrested on Tuesday, May 24 by members of the Detective Division following a lengthy investigation into the robbery. The teen was charged with one count of first-degree robbery and is being held…
Business
Recall Issued For Hot Glue Guns Due To Fire, Burn Hazards
More than a million glue guns sold nationwide at dollar stores are being recalled due to concerns of fire and burn hazards, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced. A total of approximately 1,025,000 Crafter’s Square Glue Guns sold at Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores sold between August 2020 and February 2022 are being voluntarily recalled after complaints were made by consumers. There have been a total of seven reports of electrical malfunctions when using the glue guns, including four reports of fire and one report of skin irritation. According to CPSC, the defectiv…
Police & Fire
Man Robbed At Knifepoint In Long Island Dollar Tree Parking Lot, Police Say
Police are searching for three people who allegedly robbed a man at knifepoint in the parking lot of a Long Island Dollar Tree store. The incident took place around 6:25 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 8, at the Dollar Tree parking lot on Old Country Road in Riverhead. According to police, a 53-year-old man was in his vehicle in the parking lot when a Hispanic woman got into his vehicle and shut it off. At the same time, two Hispanic men walked up to the vehicle, opened the driver's door, and demanded the man's money while displaying a knife. Police said a quantity of money and personal b…
Business
Dollar Tree Announces First Permanent Price Increase In Decades
Dollar and a Quarter Tree? For the first time in more than three decades, Dollar Tree announced that it will be increasing the prices for most of its items up to $1.25 as the country contends with surging inflation rates. In recent years, dollar stores have been veering away from that moniker, with many upping prices to as much as $3 or $5 for some items. The new prices are expected to be rolled out to each of the company's 8,000 stores by early 2022 after the company tested higher-priced items for months, to which officials said there was a “positive customer reaction,” after attempting…
Business
Covid-
19: Dollar Tree Will Sell Items Over $1 Amid Supply-Chain Issues, Freight Costs
Discount chain Dollar Tree is poised to start selling some merchandise at prices above $1 amid COVID-19 pandemic-related global supply chain issues. The discount chain said it wants to begin adding price points above $1 in selected legacy Dollar Tree stores, in addition to offering $1, $3, and $5 products across its Dollar Tree Plus stores. "Our brand promise is that customers get great value for what they spend at Dollar Tree," CEO Michael Witynski said in a statement. "We will continue to be fiercely protective of that promise, regardless of the price point, whether it is $…
Police & Fire
Man Accused Of Making Sexual Contact With 12-Year-Old At Long Island Store
A man has been charged with making sexual contact with a child multiple times at a Long Island store. The arrest was made on Thursday, Oct. 7 by the Nassau County Police Special Victims Squad after an investigation following the incident at around 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19. Heriberto Colon, 40, of Franklin Square, while inside the Dollar Tree store located at 2575 Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow, approached a 12-year-old girl, and inappropriately touched her as she was standing in the candy aisle, Nassau County Police said. Colon proceeded to inappropriately touch the g…
Police & Fire
Cops Buy Homeless Man Socks Instead Of Arresting Him For Shoplifting In Westchester
A pair of police officers went out of their way to help a member of the community who is down on his luck and needed a helping hand in Westchester County. Two members of the Mount Vernon Police Department were called to Dollar Tree on Saturday, May 1, where there was a report of a would-be shoplifter in possession of socks and was being temporarily detained After arriving at the store, body camera footage of the incident released by the Mount Vernon Police Department showed Officers Christopher Cartwright and Jason Velez show the man an act of kindness after he was busted attempting to pock…
Police & Fire
Man Accused Of Stealing From Long Island Dollar Tree Store
Know him? Police investigators on Long Island are attempting to identify and locate a man who allegedly robbed a dollar store earlier this year. An alert was issued by Suffolk County Crime Stoppers for a man who allegedly walked into Dollar Tree on Clay Pitts Road in East Northport at approximately 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 3, and stole items. Police said that the suspect jumped over the counter (see photos above), stole two cartons of Newport cigarettes and other merchandise before fleeing the store on foot. At the time of the robbery, the man was wearing a black sweatshirt with the letter…
Business
Long Island Dollar Tree Store Closing
Dollar Tree announced it will be shutting down one of its Long Island stores by the end of the month. The Deer Park location on Commack Road will close by the middle of January, a company spokesperson announced. When it closes its doors, there will be 50 Dollar Tree stores remaining on Long Island, with at least two more scheduled to open later this year. The closure comes just four years after the 13,000-square-foot store originally opened in the busy shopping center. According to a Dollar Tree spokesperson “we occasionally close stores for a variety of reasons, including the sale of the …
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