Yeah, I’d say that’s a good reason to be mad. It’s also weird, the demand around here would be for the mom and pop shops over any chain. But if the corpos get to cheat with backhanded deals with the city, not much you can do about it.

I recently moved to an area with mostly chains but it’s slowly changing. People on nextdoor are bitter (and honestly pretty awful) about it, like “oh no, my liquor store turned into a coffee shop, the world has gone to shit.”