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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
Ehhhhh, not really.  Rural failure in America has much more to do with long term political policy problems than the actual American economy.   
    
 Dollar store success is a symptom of that.

gpt
It's more a result from WMT coming in, under pricing the local grocer, putting them out of business, then realizing the market is softer than initially thought and shutting down. 
  
 Dollar stores thrive because they can get a cheap footprint in those towns with a customer that hates the superstores but still need some form of grocer.  Hence the huge number of proposed new stores across the southeast.