お知らせ • Nov 14
Dollar General Corporation Announces Executive Changes
Dollar General Corporation appointed Emily C. Taylor as Chief Operating Officer, effective November 16, 2025. Ms. Taylor, age 49, has served as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer since September 2020 and will relinquish such role on the Effective Date. She joined Dollar General in 1998 and held roles of increasing responsibility in investor relations, financial planning and analysis, merchandise planning, pricing and merchandising operations prior to her promotion to Vice President, Pricing & Merchandise Data Optimization, in March 2011. She then served as Vice President, Merchandising Operations (March 2012 to April 2014), was subsequently promoted to Senior Vice President, General Merchandise Manager (April 2014 to September 2019), and served as Senior Vice President, Channel Innovation (September 2019 to September 2020). Taylor has held roles of increasing responsibility in numerous areas across Dollar General, including merchandising, pricing, merchandise planning, financial planning and analysis, and investor relations. In 2014, she was named senior vice president, general merchandise manager, with responsibility for non-consumable merchandising, and where she helped to create and launch the Company’s Non-Consumable Initiative (NCI). In 2019, Taylor was named senior vice president of channel innovation and led the development and launch of the Company’s pOpshelf® stores. Since being named evp, chief merchandising officer in September 2020, Taylor has overseen DG’s merchandising, marketing and digital, global sourcing, merchandise operations, inventory management, in-store experience efforts, delivery initiatives and pOpshelf®. Taylor has been recognized for her achievements as a trailblazer in the retail space and in 2025 was honored as Merchant of the Year by Mass Market Retailers (MMR) and named to the Chain Store Age Retail’s Top Women 2025 list. Other accolades include the 2024 Progressive Grocer Top Women in Grocery list, 2021 Store Brands’ Top Women Impacting Storebrand Excellence list, 2018 MMR People Who Make a Difference list and MMR Most Influential Women in Retail list from 2016-2020. Taylor earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and her MBA from Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. In conjunction with Taylor’s appointment, Dollar General announced additional organizational changes including the promotion of Bryan Wheeler to executive vice president and chief merchandising officer; the transition of Pooh Vichidvongsa to senior vice president, general merchandise manager; and the elevation of Shareeka Meadows to senior vice president, pOpshelf®. As executive vice president and chief merchandising officer, Wheeler will lead all consumable and non-consumable merchandising initiatives, global sourcing, merchandise operations, global inventory management and in-store experience efforts for Dollar General and pOpshelf®. Wheeler’s career spans more than four decades in merchandising, operations and planning. He joined DG in 2006 as vice president, division merchandise manager and has served as senior vice president, general merchandise manager since 2017. Prior to joining DG, Wheeler spent more than 20 years at Kmart in roles spanning merchandising, store operations and supply chain. Vichidvongsa has served as senior vice president, pOpshelf® since 2024 leading merchandising, marketing and store operations for all stores in 21 states. She now returns to the Dollar General line of business as its senior vice president, general merchandise manager leading categories within family care, including paper, home cleaning, pet and health & beauty as well as private brand strategy. Vichidvongsa joined DG in 2008 and has held several roles including vice president and division merchandise manager for categories in home, holiday, health and beauty; and was instrumental in DG’s NCI rollout. In 2025, Vichidvongsa was named to Home Accents Today’s 20 People to Watch list and has been honored among MMR’s Most Influential Women in Retail in 2023 and INvolve’s HERoes 100 Future Leaders Role Models list in 2022. Meadows, who joined DG in 2012, has served as vice president, division merchandise manager for pOpshelf® since 2024. In her new role as SVP, pOpshelf®, she will oversee the entire pOpshelf® line of business including merchandising, marketing and store operations. Before shifting to pOpshelf®, Meadows held various roles of increasing responsibility at DG including senior buyer, senior director, and vice president, division merchandise manager of apparel and stationery. Meadows was named to the INvolve’s HERoes 100 Future Leaders Role Models list in 2023, INvolve’s EMpower 100 Future Leaders Role Models list in 2022 and MMR’s Most Influential Women in Retail in 2022. In addition to these organizational moves and effective November 12, 2025, the Company has eliminated the position of executive vice president, strategy and development and has announced that Steve Deckard has left the Company.