Presumably this is a chance for small local shops to come back. Usually the arrival of a large supermarket like Walmart means the death knell for many small local shops in its catchment area, and a savage blow to that areas society.
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To hear Mary Francis Matney tell it, Walmart didn’t kill the once-vibrant cluster of shops next to a railroad and a creek in the faded old coal town of Kimball, W. Va. — the disappearance of the mines had pretty well taken care of that already. But now that Walmart’s leaving, too, as one of 154 U.S. stores the company closed in January, the town might be snuffed out for good.
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"Given some positive and some negative outcomes, it's probably safest to say that Wal-Mart's net imprint on a county's health appears to be smaller than most perceive." [1]
[1] https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/fedgazette/the-w...
[2] https://ag-econ.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/novdec05...
[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/03/31/of-course...