It's already happened in Fairbanks, sort of.  Notice that Carr's Clothing finally went out of business recently?  Bet you didn't know that they were in business for over three-quarters of a century.  Small businesses, especially long-standing ones, have been steadily dying on the vine for years.  There's that one pawn shop where the Silver Spur used to be.  They're some sort of chain based in Wasilla, if I remember.  They gave me the usual sort of excuses when I went around trying to find my stolen laptop a few years ago, similar to what people are saying here about Cash America.