The discount retailer’s new location has yet to be determined.
By Eileen M. Adams
Staff Writer

RUMFORD – Dollar Depot manager Bobbi Frost has confirmed that the discount variety store plans to move from its longtime location at the Abbott Farm Plaza.

She said that the new location is still up in the air.

After early April, the Dollar Depot will be the only business remaining in the shopping center once was anchored by the Ames Department Store. Ames closed nearly two years ago. The offices of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice, still located in the plaza, are moving to a new location in Dixfield in April.

Frost said the store, which has been in business for five years, will likely expand once it finds a suitable location.

The current store has two full-time people and three part-time.

Once the move is made, open hours will be longer and the range of items will be larger, prompting the need for at least two more part-time employees, said Frost.

For most of its five-year history, every item in the store sold for a dollar. In recent months that has been changing a bit to include more bargain-store type items, similar to Marden’s, said Frost.

Jay Ward, based in Northwood, N.H., owns 13 Dollar Stores in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, is also in the process of opening several stores in northern New England, called Wardos, that will focus on bargain-basement type items.

The only other Dollar Depot in Maine is located in Standish.

Frost said she expects a move by the Rumford Dollar Depot to happen sometime in the next few months.

eadams@sunjournal.com

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