Storefront Stagnation: Coping With Neighborhood Retail’s New Realities We miss the locally owned shops that once sustained community on our Main Streets. We need to try to sustain them in a radically different economic world. Alan Ehrenhalt, Senior Editor | April 20, 2021
Like many of the residents of our northern Virginia neighborhood, I am attached to my local bookstore and worry that it could go away. I try to shop there instead of at Amazon whenever I can.
Concern for local retail is nothing unusual in America these days. What s unusual is that my bookstore isn t a cozy independent establishment catering to local tastes. It s a Barnes & Noble, an outpost of the largely impersonal national chain. It matters to the community not because its staff members are familiar faces with longstanding literary knowledge. They aren t. It matters because it s as close to local bookselling commerce as most of us are likely to get at this po
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