In October
of last year I attended a Cisne Village Board meeting. I heard they were giving
money to a contractor who was going to build a new Dollar General in town.
They did….voting
5-1 to spend $30,000. I lamented the decision because corporations like Dollar
General and Wal-Mart are crushing small town business. Yesterday afternoon, I
visited Vicky Mugrage as she stood wearing a Cisne FFA hoodie at the cash
register of Cisne Key Market. She’s been the owner since 1993.
At the end
of the month, Cisne Key Market will close its doors for good. No more running
tabs for people waiting for their social security check. No more donations from
the downtown store for worthy civic causes.
Mugrage is
clear, her decision was made the night the village board decided to give the handout
to the people building the Dollar General. She’s both angry and sad.
Contents
will be auctioned in May.
Meanwhile, ground
has been broken out on the highway for the new Dollar General. Mugrage knew it
was impossible to compete with a business that buys bread and milk by the
truckload….and sell it cheaper than she could. There will be some that say this
is a good thing. Lower prices. A Dollar General would have come eventually to
Cisne. The stores are cropping up at every every wide spot in the road. I would
probably agree.
But in this
instance, the burr in my saddle is the $30,000 gift.
It helped drive the nail
in the front door of the Cisne Key Market.
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