4 1 form4-45377_ct.txt U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [_] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Turner, Cal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) 100 Mission Ridge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) Goodlettsville, TN 37072-2170 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol DOLLAR GENERAL CORPORATION "DG" ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Year APRIL 2002 ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) [X] Director [X] 10% Owner [X] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below) CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (CEO) ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [X] Form filed by one Reporting Person [_] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person ________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned ================================================================================
6. 4. 5. Owner- Securities Acquired (A) or Amount of ship 3. Disposed of (D) Securities Form: 7. Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Direct Nature of 2. Code ------------------------------- Owned at End (D) or Indirect 1. Transaction (Instr. 8) (A) of Month Indirect Beneficial Title of Security Date ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership (Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 04/19/2002 G V 2,838(1) D D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 04/29/2002 G V 200(2) D D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 04/30/2002 G V 2,300(3) D 5,708,756 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 11,061 I By 401(k) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 82 I By Co-EXEC CTS Estate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 1,881,513 I By Co-TTEE ETC TR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 1,293,620 I By Co-TTEE HCTTR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 1,531,180 I By Co-TTEE JST TR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 1,881,036 I By Co-TTEE LJTD TR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 31,625,784 I By Co-TTEE Turner Children's Trust ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 150,000 I By CT Annuity TR2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 272,779 I By Dugas Irrevocab- le TR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 10,265 I By IRA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 98,058 I By LWC Foundation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 758,836(4) I By Spouse ====================================================================================================================================
* If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Print or Type Responses) (Over) (Form 4-07/99) FORM 4 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================
10. 9. Owner- Number ship of Form 2. Deriv- of Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11. sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In- cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene- 1. of action Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner- Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stock Option/Emp $15.42 4/19/02 A V (A)178,725 10/20/02 4/19/12 Common 178,725 178,725 D /Spec/2002-04-19 Stock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ====================================================================================================================================
Explanation of Responses: (1) A grant of 1,419 shares made to two separate individuals through trust accounts (2) A gift of 100 shares made to two individuals (3) A gift of 100 shares made to 11 individuals and a gift of 200 shares made to 6 individuals (4) In May of 2001, 31,249 shares were received by Mr. Turner's spouse as a result of the conversion of STRYPES into shares of common stock in accordance with the STRYPES acquired by Mr. Turner's spouse in October of 2000. On Mr. Turner's Form 5 for fiscal year 2001, these shares were inadvertently excluded from the total number of shares reported as owned by Mr. Turner's spouse. /s/ Cal Turner 5/24/2002 --------------------------------------------- ----------------------- **Signature of Reporting Person Date ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. Page 2