It depends on what you mean by "take business away". A businesses lack of presense could allow the diversion of potential customers to your nextdoor neighbor ea

It depends on what you mean by "take business away". A businesses lack of presense could allow the diversion of potential customers to your nextdoor neighbor easily. While you're slaving away trying to drum up word of mouth amd for some reason preventing searchability, regular customers are searching for "deli near me" and you the deli owner aren't coming up hypothetically.