Jesse Jackson protesting Krogers

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(04-10-2018, 04:49 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: If you like having stores in your neighborhood, you have to buy enough things from those stores to allow them to remain open.

Not defending Jackson but I wanted to say something about this:

When Walmart moved within 15 miles of my hometown we still had two or three groceries stories in the town with a population of maybe 4,000.

Now there are zero within walking distance and even some of the bigger ones near the Walmart have closed or are going to in the near future.

They just could not compete with Walmart's pricing and were driven out of business.  Not saying that is what happened with these locations but I wanted to comment on that aspect of some stores.

Also I should add that when a new Walmart opened in between the town I live in now and the next town ZERO groceries stores closed.  They all thrived.  (One recently changed to a different name.)  Slightly larger population and most of the stores were drive to and not walk to also.