(Poll created February 13, 2011)
Submitted by editor

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The last FW Woolworth's closed in 1997.

Why was that?

Parking meters
High minimum wage
Shopping malls killed downtowns
Cable TV
Cheap imports from China
Wal-mart
Target
The fall of the Soviet Union
The three generation rule
Mr Woolworth died
K-Mart
That's not true - I saw one in Australia!
Increase in car ownership
Commercial Darwinism: The fittest survived, the others didn't.
Inflation
Demise of small town bus systems
The Interstate highway system
Ronald Reagan
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