Location, location, location

You want a big grocery store? Does your neighborhood meet the criteria?
The truth is, if they don't think there's money to be made in your area, they won't set up shop there.
They don't care about the people, they don't care if we have them as a resource to acquire fresh, healthy food -  they care about their wallets.
They don't want to set up in a poor neighborhood, because they know that people there can't afford to spend $50+ on groceries every Sunday. They think that they will more likely be effected by vandalism and theft in those areas. That, to them, is the same as losing money.
Chain stores just love to move in when they see enough middle-class people gathered in one location. They can just smell the profit to be made.

These big-name stores are forcing most or the small locally-owned stores out of business, due to the lower prices and larger selection (though the products are not necessarily of better quality).

We spend our money, and instead of keeping it within the community, it goes off to some elite individual with 5 houses, a convertible, and a golf addiction.

Well, we should be fair - he needs our money so that his personal shopper can go buy his groceries.
Cause God forbid he go hungry.

~Carolyn