Jennifer Kreger speaks against big-box stores in Ft. Bragg (letter-to-the-editor)

(1) I have gotten some amazing deals at the Dollar Tree. Now that it is here, I find it occasionally irresistible to shop there even though locally-owned businesses carry many of the same products and I believe in supporting them.

(2) Many people here — lovable people, doing their best to survive in systems that are set up wrong — can barely make ends meet and need to get the best deals they can while shopping. On average, we are a poor community in terms of dollars (though not in terms of skills, effort, beauty, goodwill and unpicked fruit!)