This is a bullshit article, not backed by data, but backed by the agenda of the journalist. When there is no Dollar General, the situation for poor residents i

This is a bullshit article, not backed by data, but backed by the agenda of the journalist. When there is no Dollar General, the situation for poor residents is not better. It's worse. The cheap prices seem like they don't mean much to this yuppie moron journalist, but they are critical for families that live paycheck to paycheck. This idiot thinks urban economics are driven from the retail sector ... he basically thinks the horse nourishes itself from its asshole. In truth, there has to be some economic activity in the city to drive the consumer spending which in turn drives retail. Dollar General and its ilk cannot simply create a healthy city by paying its workers more, even though this dumbshit journalist thinks so. Does that idiot theory even pass the most basic smell test. I'm so sick of this anti-market rhetoric in America. Every ill in society is in some roundabout way placed at the feet of the market and companies. If companies are so bad, we'd expect to see great happiness in places that have no corporations. In fact, its the f'in opposite. I actually do work in rural India. When its just "mom and pop" stores in a village the people are pretty much destitute. When corporations are present, incomes go up, goods and services improve ... its just common sense. This idea that urban retailers somehow create urban decay is like a freshman Marxist take. How does this garbage get printed in newspapers in America? And BTW, there are many security measures that stores can take to protect their employees and merchandise, but I can guarantee you this idiot journalist won't like them. They aren't pretty. Armed guards in stores and bullet proof glass, and merchandise under lock and key is not what consumers want.