Local stores that were profiting off their customers and not giving back to the community lose 30% of their customers who weren’t benefiting in any way from a local store to more affordable options when available? Wow
That’s the point though. The profits don’t go to locals, they stay within the owner’s for their second cottage and new boat. Very rarely do local stores actually benefit anybody other than themselves.
They’re infinitely more likely to indirectly get back to the locals than if they were to go directly to a corporation on the other side of the country.
It’s also a question of food availability. Perhaps food deserts don’t matter to you and I doubt you’d care but when businesses get pushed out by dollar stores the selection and variety of fresh produce goes down while the quantity and variety of prepackaged & shelf stable garbage goes up.
The dollar store destroys communities, it’s their fucking business model. Fuck the dollar store
How so?
In short, local stores cannot stay afloat anymore when 30% of their customers disappear.
Local stores that were profiting off their customers and not giving back to the community lose 30% of their customers who weren’t benefiting in any way from a local store to more affordable options when available? Wow
I get what you’re saying, but the profits going to locals is objectively better for the community than them going to large corporations.
That’s the point though. The profits don’t go to locals, they stay within the owner’s for their second cottage and new boat. Very rarely do local stores actually benefit anybody other than themselves.
They’re infinitely more likely to indirectly get back to the locals than if they were to go directly to a corporation on the other side of the country.
It’s also a question of food availability. Perhaps food deserts don’t matter to you and I doubt you’d care but when businesses get pushed out by dollar stores the selection and variety of fresh produce goes down while the quantity and variety of prepackaged & shelf stable garbage goes up.
Here’s an interesting video on it: https://youtu.be/vQpUV--2Jao?si=EZA7136NtNf6zLKi