So you have decided a dollar store start up is for you. Owning and operating a dollar store is certainly a challenging and potentially rewarding path to follow. Yet it is important to quickly and carefully move from preparing for the dollar store start up to actually having the doors open and customers purchasing merchandise. There are many critical pieces to the preparation process. One of the most significant is associated with your fixtures. It is associated with determining how many fixtures you need, how they will be placed in your store, and how to maximize sales from them. In this article I focus on the process of determining your fixture layout and actual fixture needs.