A chewed up bag of pet food at a Dollar General store in Texas. It's one of the latest examples of a dollar store to face a rodent infestation.Insider source Photos at a Dollar General store in Texas show evidence of a rat infestation. It's the latest Dollar General store to face problems with rodents — and resulting health hazards. Dollar General has also been cited for clutter, and resulting fire escape hazards, at its stores. Early this year, a Dollar General employee named Timothy was spending his working hours cleaning up the retailer's stores in East Texas.At a store in Hutto, about 28 miles northeast of Austin, he found a disgusting scene: Rats had taken over the back room, chewing through bags of pet food and leaving their waste on jars of baby food.