Your town has one grocery store. It's expensive and the produce is bad. A Walmart wants to open nearby. Half the town wants it, half says it'll kill the downtown. You own the downtown. What do you do?
You don't fight Walmart—you build something Walmart cannot destroy, which is what you should have been doing all along.
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