I’m a Retired Kansas Grocer. Big-Box Dollar Stores Moved into Town and Killed my Business

We don’t need a new law today to protect small grocers. We need to enforce the law we already have

I’m a retired grocer.

It wasn’t my choice to retire. I was driven out of business by a big chain that made it impossible to compete.

I was thinking about my own story when Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris recently announced a plan to go after price gougers in the grocery business.

I oppose that proposal.

I don’t think it’s necessary or needed. I began my career in the grocery business in 1975, after President Richard Nixon instituted price controls and it was a disaster for independent grocers.

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