Losing a Grocery Store Means Losing a Town [View all]
One of the most important local businesses a rural community needs to survive is not a dollar store or a gas station. It’s a full-service grocery store.
Along with a Post Office, a school, a place of worship, and a restaurant, grocery stores make small towns attractive places to live where folks can get what they need without driving 20 or 30 minutes each way for everything.
In dozens of rural counties, there is no grocery store at all. A couple million Americans have watched the number of grocery stores dwindle over the last 25 years to the point where it’s hard to access healthy food anywhere nearby.
Some have been upended by competition from Amazon, dollar stores, and big-box stores. Most are running on very thin margins and when something big breaks like refrigeration units, it can leave no choice but to shut down the operation.
https://onecountryproject.substack.com/p/losing-a-grocery-store-means-losing
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