Well you can't discount online shopping either. But yeah the local economy is a system set up like that. You have a main industry which has most of the money wh

Well you can't discount online shopping either. But yeah the local economy is a system set up like that. You have a main industry which has most of the money which then trickles down into the rest of the local economy via jobs at the big companies with the money. When those big companies disappear then there is little money left in the system. These sorts of towns soon disappear as young kids leave the city when they grow up to other cities with big companies that can give them adequate salaries.