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                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.2

                         NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY

                                 FOR TENDER OF

                         8 5/8% NOTES DUE JUNE 15, 2010
                                       OF
                           DOLLAR GENERAL CORPORATION

     This Notice of Guaranteed Delivery or one substantially equivalent hereto
must be used to accept the Exchange Offer (as defined below) if (i) certificates
for the Company's (as defined below) 8 5/8% Notes due June 15, 2010 (the "Old
Notes") are not immediately available, (ii) Old Notes, the Letter of Transmittal
and any other documents required by the Letter of Transmittal cannot be
delivered to First Union National Bank (the "Exchange Agent") on or prior to the
Expiration Date (as defined in the Prospectus referred to below) or (iii) the
procedures for book-entry transfer cannot be completed on a timely basis. This
Notice of Guaranteed Delivery may be delivered by hand or sent by facsimile
transmission, overnight courier, telex, telegram or mail to the Exchange Agent.
See "The Exchange Offer -- Guaranteed Delivery Procedures" in the Prospectus
dated          , 2000 (which, together with the related Letter of Transmittal,
constitutes the "Exchange Offer") of Dollar General Corporation, a Tennessee
corporation (the "Company").

                 The Exchange Agent for the Exchange Offer is:

                           FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK


                                      
    By Registered or Certified Mail, or by Overnight or Hand Delivery:
   First Union National Bank                   First Union National Bank
    150 Fourth Avenue North                         40 Broad Street
          2(nd) Floor              or                  Suite 550
      Nashville, TN 37219                         New York, NY 10004
   Attention: Susan K. Baker                   Attention: Susan K. Baker


                  To Confirm by Telephone or for Information:
                                 (615) 251-9286
                            Facsimile Transmissions:
                                 (615) 251-9364

     DELIVERY OF THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY TO AN ADDRESS OTHER THAN AS
SET FORTH ABOVE OR TRANSMISSION OF THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY VIA A
FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION TO A NUMBER OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH ABOVE WILL NOT
CONSTITUTE A VALID DELIVERY.

     THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY IS NOT TO BE USED TO GUARANTEE
SIGNATURES. IF A SIGNATURE ON A LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL IS REQUIRED TO BE
GUARANTEED BY AN "ELIGIBLE INSTITUTION" UNDER THE INSTRUCTIONS THERETO, SUCH
SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MUST APPEAR IN THE APPLICABLE SPACE PROVIDED ON THE LETTER
OF TRANSMITTAL.
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                   THE FOLLOWING GUARANTEE MUST BE COMPLETED

                             GUARANTEE OF DELIVERY
                    (NOT TO BE USED FOR SIGNATURE GUARANTEE)

     The undersigned, a firm which is a member of a registered national
securities exchange or a member of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or
correspondent in the United States, hereby guarantees to deliver to the Exchange
Agent, at one of its addresses set forth above, either the certificates for all
physically tendered Old Notes, in proper form for transfer, or confirmation of
the book-entry transfer of such Old Notes to the Exchange Agent's account at The
Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), pursuant to the procedures for book-entry
transfer set forth in the Prospectus, in either case together with any other
documents required by the Letter of Transmittal, within three New York Stock
Exchange trading days after the date of execution of this Notice of Guaranteed
Delivery.

     The undersigned acknowledges that it must deliver the Old Notes tendered
hereby to the Exchange Agent within the time period set forth above and that
failure to do so could result in a financial loss to the undersigned.


                                                            
Name of Firm: -------------------------------------------
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                                                                                 (AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE)

Address: -------------------------------------------------     Title:
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                                                               Name: ---------------------------------------------------
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                        (ZIP CODE)                                               (PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT)

Area Code and Telephone Number: ---------------------          Date: -----------------------------------------------------


     NOTE:  DO NOT SEND OLD NOTES WITH THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY.
ACTUAL SURRENDER OF OLD NOTES MUST BE MADE PURSUANT TO, AND BE ACCOMPANIED BY, A
PROPERLY COMPLETED AND FULLY EXECUTED LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL AND ANY OTHER
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS.

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