Walmart Didn’t Kill the Small Town, It Is the Small Town

Re:Walmart Didn’t Kill the Small Town, It Is the Small Town by gottorf on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:31AM (#36908372)

Downtown Ithaca most likely would have been just as vibrant without that law. It's a town with a higher median household income than the US as a whole, plus two colleges, both of which cost >$50k a year to attend. The students, especially of Cornell, are a great and continuing source of relatively price-insensitive consumers.

Chapel Hill, NC has a Target smack dab in the middle of downtown, and everyone would agree that it's an idyllic college town with a wonderful culture.

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Re:Walmart Didn’t Kill the Small Town, It Is the Small Town by slater- on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:31PM (#36910291)

i respectfully disagree. the "wonderful culture" chapel hill is known for is a memory from the 80s and 90s. the target store that opened on franklin street is maybe the most blatant sign of the shitty generic direction the town has been going in. it's a nice memory though. here's to the squirrel nut zippers.

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