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TexasTowelie

(117,365 posts) Fri Jul 6, 2018, 08:47 PM Jul 2018

With No Grocery Store In His County, A Rural Georgia Restaurant Owner Steps In

Around Christmas two years ago, the Piggly Wiggly shut down in Crawford County, just west of Macon.

“It’s been tough, man. It’s hard to function,” said Dan Hudson, a longtime resident.

The Piggly Wiggly was the only grocery store in the county, he said.

After it closed, Hudson estimated revenue at the local Dollar General probably quadrupled.

Read more: https://www.wabe.org/with-no-grocery-store-in-his-county-a-rural-ga-restaurant-owner-steps-in/

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With No Grocery Store In His County, A Rural Georgia Restaurant Owner Steps In (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2018 OP

How can rural areas become bereft of produce? House of Roberts Jul 2018 #1

House of Roberts

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1. How can rural areas become bereft of produce?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Jul 6, 2018, 08:57 PM

Jul 2018

Is it because all the farms are large ag-businesses? Small farms always sell local off the back of the truck, at least in season.

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