Family Dollar names IT Strategic Partner of the Year

MATTHEWS, N.C. Family Dollar Stores announced that technology solution provider, Direct Source has been named IT Strategic Partner of the Year at the company’s Annual IT Strategic Partner Summit. Joshua Jewett, Family Dollar SVP information technology, CIO presented the award to representatives of Direct Source.

“Direct Source was instrumental in delivering our Store of the Future technology platform to thousands of our stores,” said Jewett. “Their installation resources and project management team showed a consistently high track record of quality execution throughout our engagements. Rapid store systems POS installation projects can be an incredibly disruptive undertaking for a retailer. Executing with quality in thousands of locations throughout the nation compounds that complexity. Our partnership with Direct Source helped mitigate a lot of those issues.”