The guy who runs the little party store in my little town has another store in the Detroit area. He says the little store here that gets between 5 and 10 customers per hour has a larger profit margin despite a fraction of the customers. Not as much money overall but operating costs are much lower as well.
Here he doesn’t have to stock a lot of excess crap. He doesn’t have to hire 3 or 4 people to run the store. His insurance rates are much lower and says nothing has been shoplifted in 18 months that he’s owned the place.
And if he were to pull the store out of Detroit, he’d be a “racist”.