Dollar General opens new Murphy store, adds 6-10 jobs

Dollar General’s new Murphy store opened at 138 Ledford St., adding 6 to 10 jobs in a small Cherokee County market where one new location can quickly reshape hiring, hours and transfer opportunities. The company also planned a grand opening giveaway of gift cards for the first 50 adult customers and tote bags for the first 100, a signal that the store was being launched as a community stop as much as a retail outpost.

For store workers and district managers, a new opening like this is more than a ribbon-cutting. It creates a fresh operating environment where the team has to build routines from scratch, learn local shopping patterns and get replenishment right before traffic builds. New stores can be easier to organize than older locations, but they also bring early pressure on staffing, training and merchandising, especially when a team is trying to avoid the understaffing problems that can hit mature Dollar General stores.

The Murphy opening also fits into a larger growth plan. Dollar General said it had 20,893 Dollar General, DG Market, DGX, pOpshelf and Mi Súper Dollar General stores across the United States and Mexico as of Jan. 30, 2026. In March, the company said it planned to open nearly 450 new U.S. stores in fiscal 2026, along with about 4,250 remodels and 20 relocations. For employees looking for a path into the company, that kind of expansion means more entry points into frontline retail jobs and more chances to move into lead or management tracks when openings appear.

The Murphy site itself was built through a specific real-estate pipeline. Teramore Development LLC, based in Thomasville, Georgia, bought the 2.24-acre parcel at the southwest corner of Ledford Street and U.S. 19/74/129 in July for $364,000. Commercial listings describe the project as a 2026 build-to-suit Dollar General Plus of about 10,640 square feet with 36 parking spaces and visibility on a corner carrying about 20,177 vehicles a day. That traffic count helps explain why Dollar General kept betting on the site as a rural highway-adjacent stop.

The company’s own mission language ties those openings to customer value and convenience, employee career opportunities and community support. In Murphy, that translated into a store that could become one of the area’s few steady retail employers, with Dollar General Careers already listing open roles there, including a sales associate posting.