Is it just a matter of zoning laws? Because in strictly economic terms, it seems to me like it would be very advantageous to open a grocery store in a neighborhood that is devoid of them.
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I live in a rural peninsula. A few years ago Walmart came in and built a big store down near the end of the peninsula. They started off with prices lower than all the mom and pop stores around until they all went out of business, they raised the prices 15% higher than they ever were at the local stores. Now they’re the only place to get food and you have to drive to the other end of the peninsula to even do that. They’re the only major thing within an hour of my house, and they know it. They have entire algorithms and server farms dedicated to studying and crushing local economies because it’s not a monopoly if it’s on a local scale. Antitrust has failed us utterly.
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