of cnn this morning. it is sunday, december 25th. of course you know, we ve all been waiting for this beautiful morning. i m amara walker. good morning and merry christmas to you as well. thank you for spending part of your holiday morning with us. just ahead this morning, fighting racism from a one horse open sleigh, after getting hate mail for put putting up a black stanta in his yard santa in h yard, one man fights back. and how dollar stars are quickly becoming the go-to destination for shoppers. and we re going to introduce you to this year s cnn hero of the year, with a heart warming moment as she accepted her award. first let s get you caught up with this morning s headlines with whitney wilde. good morning and merry christmas to you, if you re celebrating at home. we begin with this brutal weather storm. at least 22 deaths are blamed on the storm and more than a quarter million people are without electricity. more than 3,400 flights were cancelled yesterda
i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is your world to peter doocy on how the white house is dealing with this. peter? communist china still wants taiwan to be part of communist china. that means speaker pelosi s words on the ground have upset them. in terms of governance, we command taiwan for being one of the freest societies in the world. well, the chinese official is writing the u.s. must pay the price for its own mistake and we mean what we say. that has g-7 leaders now saying we re concerned by recent and announced threatening actions by the prc, particularly live fire exercises and economic coercion, which risks unnecessary escalation. even though speaker pelosi s time is done in taiwan and republican leaders have said she was smart to go, the white house won t say what they think of the trip one way or the other. you think it was good that she went? here s the thing. what we re saying is that we cannot dictate and we will not dictate where members of
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Families in rural areas often struggle with finding affordable food. A recent study reported by GOBankingRates found that dollar stores have become the fastest growing retail segment for grocery.
talk about this. good to see you. start off by telling us about dollar store profits and what s driving their strong sales. right. so america is really a nation of dollar stores. dollar general sales last quarter increased 6.8% while dollar tree, its rival sales were up 6.5%. so really strong numbers last quarter from the dollar stores and it s a continuation of trends we ve seen really over the past decade. more recently inflation is driving more shoppers to dollar stores. wealthier customers are trading down to try to save on groceries and essentials while the dollars stores core lower income shoppers are relying on them more as well. it s really the perfect environment for these stores. but what about these discount chains we re talking about. they must be affected by inflation as well and the supply chain and transportation costs?