The Town’n Country grocery in Oriental, North
Carolina, a local fixture for 44 years, closed its doors in October
after a Wal-Mart store opened for business. Now, three months later --
and less than two ...
A similar thing happened where I live when Borders (bookstore) chain went out of business. Now, Wal-Mart is doing the same thing to many places in the U.S. First Borders came in an put most new book stores out of business so only used book stores were left pretty much except specialty book stores. Then when Borders closed here there were literally no new bookstores within about an hour of where we live by car. My wife doesn't like to use Kindle because technology pretty much isn't her thing. I like Kindle because I can enlarge the print so it doesn't hurt my eyes to read the small print often in books. This has been a real problem for me since my perfect vision from birth to 45 started changing. And adapting to reading paper books hasn't worked out for me without a headache of one or more hours long. So, giving up headaches along with reading paper books except for magazines has bee quite a loss for me personally too. But now, my wife has to either order everything online or forget reading as a result.
Now whole communities had Wal-Mart come in and put out of business all the Mom and Pop pharmacies and drug stores and other kinds of stores and now they are leaving about 280 locations around the country. Where are people going to get their medicines and what they bought for the last 200 years through their local Mom and Pop stores now?
Many things aren't that great to buy online. Sometimes you want to look at something or talk to someone about what you are buying. Often you don't even know something exists at all unless you see it in a store.
These kinds of changes are no really good for many communities nationwide in regard to medicines, sundries and other goods, and in regard to books we have already seen this kind of thing where I live too.
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