Box stores aren't why people move to area

I am a Sandpoint native currently receiving an education internationally. This does not stop me from being updated on the happenings in Sandpoint. I was so disappointed to hear that Super 1 Foods may be successful in building a store on the old LP mill site.

Not only will another box store ruin the aesthetics of our beautiful town, just as Jack in the Box did, but this is the wrong move to make in supporting the local economy during a time of economic crisis.

In the short term it may provide a few jobs, but it is my experience in working with a similar corporation (bright orange in orientation) that these chains tend to import their managerial staff. It does not stop there, a giant box store to push down prices and put local food stores, like Truby’s and Winter Ridge, out of business and also increase competition for our homegrown farmer’s market?

People do not continue to live and move to Sandpoint because of box stores, but for the community and culture that exists. As a community, and especially at a local political level, we should be promoting local entrepreneurship, not corporate domination. It is obvious we do not need another corporate grocery store, seeing as Harold’s was disposable and easily replaced by a brick mausoleum.

YARROW FRANK

Sandpoint