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Re:Walmart Didn’t Kill the Small Town, It Is the Small Town by leetcrew on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:33AM (#36908396)
people often give this "just so" explanation, but it doesn't quite add up to me. if it's really so inconvenient to go to the consolidated Walmart location a few towns over, why don't you see shops start to reopen on main street? I suspect the root cause has more to do with cars than a particular megastore.
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Re:Walmart Didn’t Kill the Small Town, It Is the Small Town by FrustratedMonky on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:44AM (#36908583)
The needed capital to re-start. They have lost the critical mass. For many small towns, these stores were started many decades ago.

I guess technically, if a store can't be re-started today is kind of like also saying, if the small town can't re-start itself, then that points to question, why would a small town need to exist at all today.

Think the end of this line of reasoning is that small towns have no reason to exist, so let them go?

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Re:Walmart Didn’t Kill the Small Town, It Is the Small Town by lotsofpulp on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:34PM (#36909430)
> Think the end of this line of reasoning is that small towns have no reason to exist, so let them go?

Correct.

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