The death neighborhood businesses..

[bored1]

With the proliferation of stores like Lowes,Best Buy.Walmart etc.Ive come to the conclusion that small neighborhood businesses will someday be a memory......In some ways they already are as I can recall from my youth the neigborhood grocer,Drug store privately owned gas station, hardware store etc. Slowly these businesses, that made a community are disappearing and with it a certain sense of community......Yesterday while driving across the state and through many small towns I noticed the empty store fronts of the downtown areas........At one time these were vibrant businesses now just memories........Im not convinced that this is a good thing.......

 

[alexandraaah]

With the proliferation of stores like Lowes,Best Buy.Walmart etc.Ive come to the conclusion that small neighborhood businesses will someday be a memory......In some ways they already are as I can recall from my youth the neigborhood grocer,Drug store privately owned gas station, hardware store etc. Slowly these businesses, that made a community are disappearing and with it a certain sense of community......Yesterday while driving across the state and through many small towns I noticed the empty store fronts of the downtown areas........At one time these were vibrant businesses now just memories........Im not convinced that this is a good thing.......

It's a very sad thing. One of the biggest problems in keeping a "neighborhood" business alive is that they simply cannot compete with the prices, so they have to jack their's up, often times.

In Chicago there are tax breaks for small business owners to promote such integration, but the big businesses continue to take over.

Urban development, for one, is a calculated (often poorly and cruelly) venture.

 

[NoRegrets]

........At one time these were vibrant businesses now just memories........Im not convinced that this is a good thing.......

I agree! Travelling through Europe, someone asked, You know what's wrong with Americans?

<I love questions like this>

No I don't, please tell me.

Well, they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

If price is the only criterion, I gues this is what you get!


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[T.H. Oughts]

I always try to support a owner/operater store when possible. You get a service there that the big stores don't give.......

I m happy to pay an extra $2 for a $20 item in a shop owned and worked by the same person.

I hate walking into a book shop or craft shop and the people behind the counter do not know what they are talking about or don't have the time to come show you something and how it works...