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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, Pierce's 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 don't have a store, you can't really have a town," Ripton resident and prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in a New York Times op-ed three years ago. It's a thought that haunts many Vermont towns, as general stores, long a sine qua non of village economies – and the Vermont brand – contend with today's economic forces. From Albany in the state's north...