If there are two underrepresented groups in HN comments its poor folks and people that live in rural communities. This article is just scapegoating 'dollar stores' for scenarios where their growth intersects with environments suffering from incompetent leadership and shitty education as if a) it's the only place these stores exist and b) they are the root cause for the problems being outlined.
Yeah, as someone who grew up (and still is) lower middle class near rural areas, DGs and the like served a niche that would be hard-press to be filled by other companies, national or local.
So I can't really blame a company for taking over a market underserved. They are a symptom of larger changes in the economy and society, that which one SHOULD criticize.
Yeah, I don’t think this is the dollar store chain’s fault. They are serving a niche. The problem is that this is such a growing niche, that well, it isn’t really a niche anymore.
The problem is poor and low to middle income folks everywhere in America seem to be getting poorer.
There are regular excellent comments and discussions here on homelessness and poverty prompted by @DoreenMichele.
A notable outlier here, and one I suggest checking out.
Yup, most of the comments here are by people who wouldn’t be caught dead shopping at dollar store since it’s “for poor people” yet they are happy to extol the ills of such a business and demand it go away to protect “poor people”.
