I've noticed the proximity to a larger town or city makes a big difference. Towns in a remote area need to be a lot more self-sufficient than a town closer to a larger city.
For instance, I've noticed Broken Bow, NE, population 3,500, has far more goods and services available than my hometown of Seward, population 7,000. Why? Because Seward is 20 miles from Lincoln and Broken Bow is out in the Sandhills.
Seward's newspaper (which I managed once, many years ago) is constantly plastered with public service ads wanting people to shop at home. Yet a year of so ago, I was looking to buy a blanket for our bed. In the entire town of Seward, there was not one single plain old fuzzy blanket for a queen sized bed available. Or any other size bed,for that matter. And that included Walmart. So much for shopping at home.
Business people need to adapt. When Walmart first came to Seward twenty years ago, and again when they upsized to a Super Walmart 10 years ago, there was a big commotion predicting that downtown would become a ghost town. It didn't happen. Various businesses found a different niche that Walmart didn't want to mess with, and life went on.
And when a business did close, there was a reason, usually incompetence. A large tire store closed several years ago for lack of business, but I'll swear to this day it was because they couldn't balance tires worth a hoot. I don't know if it was their machine or the operators, but I could take a wheel straight off of their high tech electronic balancer and without even mounting it on a vehicle put it on my bubble balancer and it would lean to one side.
The whole scene is a complex issue that in some cases simply boils down to the character, competence, ambition, and personality of the people involved.
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