Miss Gayle<p>The Big Box CEOs of the US want to extract *wealth* from you, not just a reasonable profit, and that requires scale. It represents all that's wrong with American culture and the economy.</p><p>Link: <a href="https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/3/19/upzonedpod-can-we-take-community-wealth-back-from-walmart-and-kroger" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">strongtowns.org/journal/2025/3</span><span class="invisible">/19/upzonedpod-can-we-take-community-wealth-back-from-walmart-and-kroger</span></a></p><p>And is it a good idea to be 10 miles from the nearest grocery store in a disaster or emergency? Or when gas becomes $15 a gallon? No.</p><p>Resilience means duplication - lots of it. Stores in every neighborhood. </p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Neighborhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neighborhood</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/FoodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Walkability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Walkability</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Sustainable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainable</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a></p>