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Originally Posted by Rain Man
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.
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I'm sure that's a big part of it. Every state and in many cases, municipality, responded differently.