As Rural Groceries Fade Away, Lawmakers Wonder Whether to Act
“When you have a small rural town and the grocery store dies, the town dries up and it just blows away,” said Nancy McCloud, who revived B Street Market in 2017 and became its owner. “There are six towns east of here — they just lost the grocery store, then they lost the gas station, and then they lost the bank and now they’re nothing.” …
