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Running a rural general store is a labor of love - and a tough business. In New England, where communities believe the value of having a general store goes beyond the bottom line, locally-supported models may offer a path forward.

A look at Facebook data, a Northeast Kingdom general store and “a geography to connectedness.”

Connections between lower-income and higher-income people can drive economic mobility, new research shows — but those connections are rare.

Sun, 05/02/2021 - 1:38pm -- tim In Shrewsbury, Pierces Store, reopened as a cooperative in 2009, is thriving. Manager Elana Levin was too busy for an interview. Photos by C.B. Hall by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine "If you dont have a store, you cant really have a town," Ripton resident and prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in a New York Times op-ed three years ago. Its a thought that haunts many Vermont towns, as general stores, long a sine qua non of village economies – ...