It seems like where there's dollars, there's robbers. Even Family Dollars.
The chain's discount stores here have been robbed at least a dozen times in the past two years.
That includes two this week.
On Thursday, a store clerk was shot in the leg during a robbery at the Family Dollar on Emery Highway after she told the gunman she was able to open the safe.
And on Friday, Family Dollar on Houston Avenue was robbed by two armed men. It was the third time the store was hit in 15 months.
According to the company's website, there are 16 Dollar Generals in Macon. Half have been robbed or burglarized in 2015 or 2016.
They are:
3567 Houston Ave. (3), robbed on July 9, 2015 and Nov. 1 and Dec. 8, 2016.
2123 Pio Nono Ave. (2), Aug. 16 and Sept. 29, 2016.
3656 Jeffersonville Road (2), Nov. 18, 2015 and Aug. 1, 2016.
3190 Mercer (2), Aug. 8, 2015 and Oct. 4, 2015.
5615 Houston Road, Aug. 7, 2015
2526 Houston Ave., Jan. 26, 2015
160 Emery Highway, Dec. 8, 2016 (the store was also robbed in 2013 and 2014).
2035 Shurling (burglary), Sept. 9, 2016.
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We reached out to the Family Dollar company for information on their safety and security procedures. We have not heard back from them.
In the past two years, there have also been five robberies at Dollar General stores in Macon and one at Dollar Tree.
They are:
4996 Bloomfield Road (2), robbed April 10, 2015 and Oct. 25, 2015.
3716 Houston Ave., Sept. 16, 2016
1444 Martin Luther King Blvd., Nov. 25, 2016.
3824 Pio Nono Ave., Dec. 2, 2016,
Dollar Tree, 4357 Forsyth Road, Oct. 13, 2015
There are 10 Dollar General stores in Macon and six Dollar Trees, according to their websites.
