It's always been my understanding that all the clothes in the world are manufactured in about three places - they just put different labels on them, depending on where they're going and who's going to buy them. ;-) Target and Wal-Mart have different sorts of things - I have bought clothes at both. The independent shops in Nashville are invariably specialty boutiques that I simply CAN'T afford to shop in. How's that for irony?

Here's another thing to consider: when enough people move to a "rural" place, they start kvetching about all the stuff they don't have within a convenient distance. Some people WANT a supermarket. Some people WANT a Wal-Mart, or a Target, or whatever, because they don't want to drive 50 miles to the nearest grocery where they can buy baby spinach leaves (just for an example) in a bag. They want baby spinach leaves in a bag in their own neighborhood.