Discount chains are thriving, but what do they do to poor communities?
If you read the opening section of the article, the writer clearly exposits that more traditional retail stores closed down as the cities were subject to deindustrialization and suburban flight. The dollar stores are what&#x27;s left. And there we have our answer: what discount chains do to poor communities is <i>act as the only provider of goods</i>.<p>But the headline and the general tone of the article is desperately trying to make it seem as if the dollar store is somehow the <i>cause</i> of urban decay (especially the middle section of the article, which tries really hard to blame the dollar store for the fact that it gets robbed). One of the clearer examples of the headline and tone trying to sell the writer&#x27;s preferred narrative even when the actual facts presented undermine that narrative.