Dunno about you but the (only) local grocery store in the small W.Australian town where I live is owned in majority by the local community who hold shares and see the books - the employees and store manager (all locals) get paid well and money is set aside for growth and infrastructure investment after which everything goes back to keeping prices low and supporting local farmers | business.

That sounds lovely and idyllic - things like that rock and there should be more of them.

There's a lot of that here, it's a large state (3x size of Texas) with a low population (not much over 2 million) so a great deal of infrastructure is "socialised" from pooled money.

Grain pools for farmers, state electricity, education structured to reach all, etc.

It's a hybrid economy with elected representatives expected to represent those that elected them - and hasn't quite broken with scale yet.

We've also pooled a lot of the CDN mirrors that serve an isolated state with enough local oversight to be sure many internet services ride over any disconnects from cables being ripped up.

I'm in favour of locally robust networks - internet, food, reources, etc.

Grocery stores don't have a monopoly on selling food, so they can't arbitrarily raise prices.