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Originally Posted by htismaqe
That still doesn't address the point of why small retail business were shut down but large retail businesses weren't.
Shops like local butchers and florists were already endangered here. Now they're gone.
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I'm curious if that's a local thing where you live. Where I live there weren't any different rules in places for small businesses versus chains.
Now, the outcome is the same, because the chains have enough cash to survive and many small businesses don't. And the chains had other advantages of scale that helped them over small businesses. But the loss of small businesses in my area wasn't a result of differentiated treatment that I know of. It was a result of everyone's loss of revenues.
I'm really bummed about it, though. More and more, I dislike large chains and avoid them where I can. But it's hard to do that when they dominate everything.