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In reply to the discussion: Walmart to Get Stuck With Most of Food Stamp Shopping Spree [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)especially Piggly Wiggly...wonderful memories. I forgot to mention that the local businesses ... the grocers and furniture stores and drug stores and malt shops et al ... lost their businesses and their shirts and had to go to work, if they didn't have family wealth or Social Security or welfare, at WalMart for minimum wage.
I don't agree with your characterization of rural people...North, South, East or West. I've lived half of my life in both places and for many, it was the "big cities" that lured their young, their best and brightest in many cases. Sociological pressures, apolitical, to be sure.
In Northern California at least, Safeway is pretty much the only grocery chain left. A grocery monopoly with food that stays in regional warehouses sometimes for months.