title: Sometimes Change Is Not Good
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    <p>As I was driving back up the main street towards home the
    other day, I saw what used to be the local comic book shop.  It
    looked like an empty commercial space.</p>

    <p>I was equally heartened by my local game shop with loud signs
    on its windows, saying "Everything Must Go!"  My beloved suspects
    that a developer bought up all the lots around it and was just
    waiting to snatch up the final piece.</p>

    <p>I also hear that a well-known local game shop across the
    bridge (not too far from where I work) may be closing.  I have
    many friends who shopped there, one apparently with a lifetime
    discount for being such a good customer.</p>

    <p>I recently discovered that a Wal-Mart will be opening soon
    in town.  Because apparently two such abominations within 15
    or 20-minute drives is not enough.  It's at the wrong end of a
    particular street, too; there was much more land at the other
    end.  But that's already developed, and probably has a competitor
    or two.  Apparently you can't rule the retail world if you have
    a store in line of sight of one of your competitors.  (Wal-Mart
    rant saved for a separate post.)</p>

    <p>At least I know where my next-closest comic and hobby/game
    shops are.  But I'm still grumpy.</p>