Reply #24: maybe, but I think most of the places on the list

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simply have new Wal-marts or bigger Wal-marts.
Richland Center, Wi got a new larger Wal-mart and a Farm and Fleet moved into the old one. Of course, Farm and Fleet may have been the nail in the coffin for Keegan's, a third generation downtown business that sold supplies to farmers. The downtown hardware store folded in the mid 1990s and the Schultz's that was downtown closed when that chain went broke regionally.

Marysville and Hays, Kansas are on the list, but I saw the new Wal-mart in Hays a couple weeks ago, and Wal-mart on-line tells me there is a new one in Marysville too.

The new ones always seem to be further from the town, sprawling over former farmland and adding to the driving time and gasoline used by their shoppers. The save time part of their advertising does not work when you have the longer drive, the walk across their huge and hectic parking lot and then the long wait in their check-out lines.