[grania]

Around here, Dollar General is making the effort to move into some communities, meaning those nearby don’t have to take a bus to get to them. Most people and neighborhood leadership appreciates it. But now the community leaders and concerned citizens have to make the effort so that those stores don’t succumb to violence and theft.

[equalator]

Speaking of which, when I was a kid, you didn't have those CD/music plastic security cages that require you to use a lightsaber to open them. And Coke machines didn't look like this:

This all changed a few decades ago and I don't know why. It's all very random and there is no apparent motive for the stores to do that.

[equalator]

Of course, when I was a kid, the coun try basically looked like this, and so the Ice Cream man didn't need to wear chainmail: