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Just a dumb question here from a city kid, where is the middle of nowhere?
How is it different from somewhere?
Who would want to live nowhere? If it is nowhere and no one lives there, why put a store there?
Help me out friends.
Like another poster stated, the area is too rural to support a chain store. There are few people, few subdivisions, few houses. You might see more farms and cows than people.
My inner-ring suburb has a Dollar Tree, directly across the street from a giant grocery store, and two blocks from Target. I have used the Dollar Tree for greeting cards. We had Family Dollar at one point, but I think it has since closed.
Dollar General/Family Dollar in small towns around here sometimes have competition from a place like Casey's General Store or QuikTrip.
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Dayton Duncan visits counties that have fewer than 2 persons per square mile. I'm a Micropolitan man myself (10,000-50,000 people), but there's no forum for that.
Yes - there is one in SE TX - that is miles out of town - but I'm sure it gets a lot of customers that don't want to drive 15-20 miles for milk or beer.
Personally, I prefer $Tree - that's where I buy my cheaters (eye glasses), Christmas Cards, Birthday Cards etc. and glassware - I don't care if I break one (or a kid drops one and breaks it).
I buy greeting cards there as I got tired of paying $5-6 for cards at Hallmark. I have stopped there for emergencies but the ones around here , in the city, don't carry fresh foods. Here ( urban area) , they do seem to cater to low income- welfare populations. In smaller burgs, I see that they do fulfill a need. It is too bad that they have put local mom and pop stores out of business but that is the business world.
DG does have a good selection of greeting cards. If you need school/office supplies, they have those as well.
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