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Careful what you wish for. The reason many jurisdictions have laws stating that public establishments have to treat all customers equally is that in the days before cars and large stores, shopkeepers tended to know all their customers, and if one was in the wrong kind of neighbourhood, that meant that weekly shopping turned into the sort of exercise in cliques and popularity that would make a high-drama high school proud.

[acobb99]

Didn't know this but super interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[brudgers]

To me, this is a core contributor to Walmart’s success. It’s not just price, but that the higher prices of “Main Street” were a mechanism for maintaining country club favoring social structures in small towns.

The Walmart in Fort Stockton gives the oil rancher who aint got time to drive to Dallas and the migrant hand living in a trailer between the tracks and I10 the same absence of bullshit.