benick wrote: ...
How in the world did you get that idea? I said nothing of the sort only that if one of the ilk closes so there's another just down the street in larger locations--that's not so in smaller markets.
No, there was essentially every McDoodle known to man; what people complained about was lack of a place/places with amenities.
Yet these sameself time-stressed folks will drive 30-miles each way over staying local? How's that time-efficient, pray tell???
Which is the other fallacy--they didn't _HAVE_ to travel out of town to shop; at least until they ceased to support local merchants that had the same merchandise anyway for which they paid the "privilege" of two or more additional hours on the road, gas, parking, etc., etc., ... Financially, it really makes no sense if one were to actually calculate net, bottom-line cost.
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That, too, is generally BS ime -- it takes far longer to tramp all over creation in one of these mega-malls than it does to go to two or three specific places, get in and out and be gone. I can generally go to one of the other stores in town, park, get what I want and be gone in the time it would take to simply get checked out in the Walmart after fighting the mobs and cart jungle in the parking lot plus the runaway kids...
No, they closed early Wednesday afternoon (church night) and all women were expected to "dress" (included the hat and gloves)... :)
Frankly, much would be far better off, undoubtedly, yes. There's little _real_ advantage in hurry-scurry and most folks are rushing nowhere just like they're continuously on the phone for nothing...
Just out of curiousity, what do _you_ consider "a very small town"???