Amazon Is Crushing Main Street and Threatening the Vitality of Our Communities

[dilby]

66. Maybe it's time for Main Street to change.

Who wants to walk down Main Street and see big box stores selling, computers, vacuums, furniture and a bunch of crap that requires huge parking lots? I like the main street by my house thank you very much, it's full of services like restaurants, cafes, breweries, tattoo parlors, hair salons, live music venues, coffee shops, ice cream shops, comic book store, used book store, local art store and so forth. It's local people providing local services and selling local products which is keeping local dollars in the community. It doesn't matter who I give $1200 for a Dell computer, only $50 would stay in the community if it was sold at a local shop and I can put more money into my community at a local restaurant in one night so I would prefer to keep the restaurants and say good bye to the big box stores.