small town in oregon bans chain stores
small town in oregon bans chain stores
An organized campaign to prevent the spread of chain dollar stores in Wallowa County scored a significant victory earlier this month. The Joseph City Council passed an ordinance banning “formula” businesses from operating within city limits.
kinda based ngl
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Local business tyrants use local government to guarantee local monopolies, temporarily preventing larger monopolies from taking over. Amazon and Walmart will eat their lunch five years later.
temporarily
Extremely temporarily if Amazon or Walmart wanted, they could make a few phone calls to their lawyers and this law would be effortlessly overturned in the courts
Local business tyrants rest on their laurels bereft of competition -> neolibs get elected and repeal this -> walmart and amazon effortlessly undercut their asses
As a bonus, people who can will just drive a town over or whatever to go to Wally Mart
Walmart is 1.5 hours away from this city
Fuck that's a gap in coverage..
It's sort of the crux of the issue, dollar stores have been expanding to fill that gap in these remote and small communities, and those communities don't want that for themselves.
probably