If the "beloved local grocery store" in a bougie New England tourist getaway is seriously threatened by a dollar store, it must be pretty shitty.

maybe they just don't want all that shitty, toxic plastic crap in their town. good for them.

Too bad if you can't afford to shop at all the overpriced local businesses, I guess. Poor people should move to where all the other poor people live so that Vermonters don't have to put up with the indignity of having a dollar store in their town.

It's worth noting that the median income of the town is about $10,000 below the national figure (the poverty rate is lower than the national one), and the people leading the charge to block dollar stores have businesses that cater to tourists and vacation home owners; the article doesn't seem to care what potential customers who currently have to drive to the next town over might think about the addition of a Dollar General.

The irony is that if they hadn't put so much effort into trying to keep Walmart &c out, there might not even be a market for dollar stores in the first place.

"Don't like it? Move to New Hampshire."

That's a very adult way to look at the situation. The next time some assbackwards state outlaws abortion or passes yet another bullshit law against same sex marriage, I assume you'll tell those folks to just move to Massachusetts.

"We didn't kick the British out of America just to let a store open up that sells cheap shit to poor people! The Boston Tea Party wasn't about taxes, it was about Nestea."