>Can you imagine not having anywhere to buy food and having to drive 3 hours just to get it?< That's a very real and serious problem for low-income and fixed-i

>Can you imagine not having anywhere to buy food and having to drive 3 hours just to get it?< That's a very real and serious problem for low-income and fixed-income consumers...many of whom are forced to shop wherever they reasonably can... There are many "food deserts"--areas where it's difficult to buy affordable good quality food--in the U.S., especially in sparsely populated urban and rural areas... It's true that if the need (demand) is great enough in an area a retailer of some sort will probably eventually open shop to fill the void...waiting for that to happen can be very painful for the poorest consumers... The best hope for communities abandoned by Wal Mart may turn out to be franchises related to the "dollar store" concept... How Dollar Stores Were Planted in the South and Bloomed... http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-dollar-stores-were-planted-in-the-south-and-bloomed-around-the-us http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-dollar-stores-were-... Dollar Stores: Big Business, Rock-Bottom Prices... http://tedium.co/2016/01/19/dollar-stores-analysis/ http://tedium.co/2016/01/19/dollar-stores-analysis/