[jldugger]

Pretty sure this is a factor in how we ended up with food deserts: municipalities that couldn't rely on property taxes to cover their budget raised sales taxes, and chains closed their underperformers. Which of course means the municipality loses more tax base as their citizens shop in another city.

Almost every large grocery store business does this, and a brief google street view tour of North St Louis will show multiple places where grocery stores have vanished and been replaced, if at all, by dollar stores.