EXHIBIT 99.1


               Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer
       Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

I, Macon F. Brock, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dollar Tree
Stores, Inc. state and attest that:

      (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
      reports of Dollar Tree Stores, Inc., and, except as corrected or
      supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

        o  no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
           fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
           the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials,
           as of the date on which it was filed); and

        o  no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to
           make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
           circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
           the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
           report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
           on which it was filed).

      (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with Dollar Tree
      Stores, Inc.'s audit committee.

      (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
      before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

        o  2001 Annual Report on Form 10-K of Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. for the
           fiscal year ended December 31, 2001;

        o  all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive
           proxy materials of Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. filed with the Commission
           subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

        o  any amendments to any of the foregoing.


/s/ Macon F. Brock, Jr.                              Subscribed and sworn to
- ---------------------------------                    before me this 12th day of
Macon F. Brock, Jr.                                  August, 2002.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
August 12, 2002

                                            /s/ Deborah D. Rose
                                            -------------------------
                                            Notary Public

                                            My Commission Expires: 1/31/03