This article is maddening on many levels. All they manage to prove is that dollar stores, like many other types of stores, go where they perceive their customer

This article is maddening on many levels. All they manage to prove is that dollar stores, like many other types of stores, go where they perceive their customers to be. They aren’t a causative factor behind poverty or racial segregation, though they managed to inject that deeply into the storyline. I dislike dollar stores, but not for any of the reasons listed here. The folks pushing back in Vermont aren’t angry about dollar stores for the reasons being dissected in this piece - instead, they seem to dislike massive, soulless retail chains showing up and profiting off their community. How about instead writing about the fact that Whole Foods doesn’t open retail stores in communities of color? That probably doesn’t play as well to their affluent white audience who probably has disdain for dollar stores but shops at Whole Foods on the regular.