The bigger thing that popped up to me is how they’re basically the Walmartazon of the country - driving out the potential for organic store development to even happen by getting there first in a market-saturating 2 week span.

I’d also noticed that they’re every few miles in some places. Good dot connection by that lady.

M O N O P O L Y!

Here’s another funny one - a lot of old town squares in smaller towns have similar layouts and buildings. Was there a point where some organization went around and exploitatively contracted with larger families in rural areas to build these town squares at an industrial capacity? How did so many of them end up looking so similar and with such similar layouts?

Did those towns end up going into unpayable debts by doing this? Did they overdevelop? Was that what drove them to the blight they have today? Were their markets poached by cabal activities elsewhere?