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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
Dollar General Corporation
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Dollar General Corporation and
subsidiaries as of January 29, 2010 (Successor) and January 30, 2009 (Successor), and the related
consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for the years ended
January 29, 2010 (Successor) and January 30, 2009 (Successor), and the periods from March 6, 2007 to
February 1, 2008 (Successor) and from February 3, 2007 to July 6, 2007 (Predecessor). These financial
statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We
were not engaged to perform an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our
audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit
procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express
no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts
and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant
estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe
that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects,
the consolidated financial position of Dollar General Corporation and subsidiaries at January 29, 2010
(Successor) and January 30, 2009 (Successor), and the consolidated results of their operations and their
cash flows for the years ended January 29, 2010 (Successor) and January 30, 2009 (Successor), and the
periods from March 6, 2007 to February 1, 2008 (Successor) and from February 3, 2007 to July 6, 2007
(Predecessor), in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
As discussed in Notes 1 and 6 to the consolidated financial statements, effective February 3, 2007,
the Company changed its method of accounting for uncertain tax positions in connection with new
accounting literature.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Nashville, Tennessee
March 31, 2010
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