There’s a great deal of nostalgia around the notion of an old time general store. Was it the limited selection of goods? The take-it-or-leave-it prices of a store with a captive audience? Or maybe the seven-to-ten-week wait for goods that were outside the small store’s inventory? No, no, and most emphatically not.
What made the old-timey store special was the personal relationships. The shopkeeper that comes from behind the register to shake your hand, ask about your wife, show you the....