Dollar Stores Are Leeching the Economic Vitality of Communities Across the U.S.
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The Dynamics of Retail
A grocery store makes like a 1% profit. I mean, you do a lot of volume, make very slim profit because it's food. If dollar general takes those away from you,. Now you're operating in the red. You know, this is true with Walmart and all the big chains. They can lose money at that location. And then once you close, well, maybe prices go up, you know, and they have the ability to do that. This is part of how we really got to start to recognize some of the true dynamics of how retail works.
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