What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears

Re:What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears by tw04 on Sunday February 07, 2016 @10:33AM (#11053162)

Because the people that were running them and just barely getting by likely don't have the funds to open a new store. A lot of these places the building/infrastructure was just handed down generation to generation. Once it goes under, there's nothing left to start it back up.

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Re:What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears by heurist on Sunday February 07, 2016 @11:46AM (#11053485)

That's why banks offer business loans.

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Re:What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears by ghaff on Sunday February 07, 2016 @12:04PM (#11053587)

And they won't make those loans in the absence of a viable business plan. (Plus, this isn't Silicon Valley. The prospective business owner is almost certainly going to need to put some of their own money in.) A lot of dying ex-resource extraction towns just don't present much of a business opportunity for anyone. I also suspect that a lot of readers here don't appreciate that really long drives to get to a "real" store is not that unusual across fairly large swaths of the US.

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Re:What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears by coldtea on Sunday February 07, 2016 @12:15PM (#11053641)

Try getting a business loan as e.g. a poor southerner ex-Walmart employee to open a new grocery store in Indianola, MS or Forkland, AL or tons of even smaller places...

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