Posted on Aug 25, 2018
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Does the United States get affected by cutbacks of Greyhound bus company cutting back from many rural routes? 5 years ago, the Sears Outlets were closing in the rural areas. Sears just closed and went bankrupt in January of this year in Canada. Sears is going to go out of business at the end of the year in the USA. We lost Sears and now we are losing Greyhound in the rural area. Do you notice this happening as well in the USA?
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I would think that there has to be impact from such things. I'm sure it has changed, but in early 70s when I was stationed near Sault Ste Marie MI, the only major national store there was a Sears Catalog store, it wasn't really even a store with products, just a counter or two with catalogs and an individual who wrote up your orders. Of course there were plenty of local small businesses, but no malls with anchor stores like we see today. I'm no longer in a rural area but retail and transportation get squeezed by slowdowns in business so they traditionally look to underperforming areas to cut. Rural areas most likely fall into this category, so corporations make the cuts with no thought about the impact on the people living in those areas.
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Yes, I would deliver to a Sears Catalog Store in small towns. Exactly how you described it.
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8 years ago, I remember delivering to a small town 30 miles west of Edmonton called Spruce Grove. The Greyhound station was an important hub back then. Like the article States, e-commerce and cheap airlines have has severe drop in demand. I just wanted to see if it also affected the the rural United States
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