My great grandparents once owned the only grocery store in their tiny, western North Dakota town, where they sold ground beef and roasts from cattle they purchased and processed locally. The store stood for generations, until a Super Walmart opened up in Williston twenty miles away. Similar stories could be told all across rural America, where once thriving rural communities with diverse agricultural systems now struggle to survive, with the shuttering of the local grocery store the final death knell.
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