The past few years, there have been a lot of stories about grocery stores opening in food deserts. OK, there is nothing wrong with that. When a store closes, there are cries of betrayal and even racism. There is something always left out in these stories. In America, businesses strive to make profits. When they don’t, they close. There is nothing unusual about that.
Too many in the communities affected seem to believe that this does not apply to them, that the businesses are required to stay open as a step toward social progress. It doesn’t work that way. If a store is a flop financially, it means that the other stores in the system must support them. Not too many business entities will live with that.
