Originally Posted by
Mr. Blue Sky
So true, especially in the last 15-20 years. But the real bulldozer of small town commerce was Walmart. Towns used to have a hardware store, toy store, bookstore, dress shop, mens shop, everything you can think of. Walmart systematically destroyed most all of that with their stores becoming all those things above under one roof. Even worse, after ruining all those shops, sometimes underperforming Walmart’s were closed, leaving many small towns with little to no retail at all. Amazon comes along and serves as the “new Walmart” and is either savior or barrier to the return of small town retail.
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