General store ideas small towns

Storefront on Main Street in Park City, Utah. Tenuous Link: west.

With a desire to work for herself and a vision of what her small town needed, Stephanie took the plunge and opened her own store.

Boyce General Store in Alvaton, Kentucky

Jacqueline Hannah—assistant director at the Food Co-op Initiative—shares how you can start a neighborhood grocery co-op in your town, including how to pitch the vision to community members and elected officials, how to translate your enthusiasm into action, and how the Food Co-op initiative can help

Imagine a store where you could find a cast iron skillet, a handmade rocking chair, comfortable footwear, rugged outdoor gear, traditional fashions, country gourmet foods, and over 500 old-fashioned candies. Imagine no more! Wander into way back when for friendly service and quality goods at the Mast General Store in Downtown Columbia. The Mast Store in Columbia is well stocked with all your favorite brands - Chaco, The North Face, Patagonia, Columbia, Carhartt - and some new ones you'll…

Dina Jackson is with the City of Harriman, in Tennessee, USA. The city government owns 9 vacant properties, including a hospital building and a couple of houses. Rather than hide them, the

Across rural America, independent grocery stores are shuttering. To keep its only store from joining the trend, one small town in Kansas got creative.

Four Maine general stores — all with dine-in seating — that are raising the bar for road food.

You could easily spend hours at these one-of-a-kind eateries!