The community of Cairo, Illinois, once a food desert, welcomed its new market last year with balloons and cheers. But the store is struggling — exposing problems with the programs set up to help.
One of the local rural towns we pass through just had its only grocery store close. There is still a fair amount of existing businesses, and it’s really only less than an hour from my city, but it seems like it’s going to be very problematic for those people soon. It makes me wonder just how long the other businesses will be able to survive.
I have a feeling that the grocery may have closed for personal/possibly health reasons. I have no basis for this at all, just that the town itself looked to still have clean buildings for businesses (not decrepit/dilapidated like some of the other verging ghost towns) and they were open and clearly had people. That would have me suspect not that the grocery was failing, but that maybe the owner had to close for personal reasons.
One of the local rural towns we pass through just had its only grocery store close. There is still a fair amount of existing businesses, and it’s really only less than an hour from my city, but it seems like it’s going to be very problematic for those people soon. It makes me wonder just how long the other businesses will be able to survive.
I have a feeling that the grocery may have closed for personal/possibly health reasons. I have no basis for this at all, just that the town itself looked to still have clean buildings for businesses (not decrepit/dilapidated like some of the other verging ghost towns) and they were open and clearly had people. That would have me suspect not that the grocery was failing, but that maybe the owner had to close for personal reasons.