You don't think there was nothing to eat in all that trash that was out there?
Where those neighbors are is a lot closer, and a lot more exposed to the activity of the store and traffic, than where he's at... I just don't think that's it. They were ~living there~ not just dumping stuff there, and they have a dog that was out most of the time.
Like I said... Coyotes have always been back in the woods, it's not unusual to have them in the area... we have a lot of bunnies and squirrels and such. That's not the weird part. I just had rarely caught glimpse of him before, and now I've seen him twice in a week.