Five Below mimics the low prices of a dollar store, but the range of products is much wider than at Dollar General and Dollar Tree.Alex Bitter/Insider Five Below is on track to open more than 200 new stores this year. It was among the fastest-growing retailers in the US in 2022, alongside Dollar General and TJ Maxx. I visited a Five Below store in Maryland to see what exactly the store offers. What is Five Below, exactly?That's what I asked myself when I first started writing about retail several years ago.