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A Boring Dystopia
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Don't live in the country, huh? Sometimes they're the only general store for miles and miles and miles. They're a great fit, in that niche.
My camp is outside a town of 900 souls. There's a Dollar General and a gas-station/general-store/grocery. Almost never hit the DG, but it's damned nice they're there in case I need something the other place doesn't have.
In your example, in my situation, the nearest Walmarts are 45-minutes west and 30-minutes east. Double those numbers because it's a round trip. Do you really want to take my DG away and force me to spend the gas and time? If you proposed that in this town, you'd have a riot on your hands.
I'd prefer an independently owned small store, as someone who installs cash register systems for independently owned stores primarily in rural West Virginia.