there's an aspect of gentrification that involves buying convenience stores and purposely shutting them down, as they tend to tepresent the last remaining walkable option for easy food, cheap alcohol and tobacco to the lower/fixed income area residents who predate the new money.

i saw it happen in two places where i used to live. the gentrification groups ("non-profit" advocacy orgs launched by real estate investors to "revitalize" old red-lined neighborhoods) would openly brag about shutting these places down as part of a campaign to deter a "criminal element".

then the only places for food, booze, tobacco in the neighborhood became the boutique, upscale places they owned.

the liberals fell all over themselves praising it.

The only stores still functioning in my town are owned and operated by Chinese and South Asian immigrants. Every time some out of towner white guy tries to open something it's expensive tourist shit which we don't have enough tourists to sustain and nobody here wants, or it's so expensive that nobody here can afford it. Though, really the difference is the Chinese lady that runs the convenience store doesn't think she's going to franchise out and become the next 7/11 but bro with dad's investment money and a plan to be the county's foremost wood fired hot tub purveyor thinks he's going to be a publicly traded company next year

I mean, a failure to manage a store doesn't really hinge on skin color. There's plenty of failure in all of us.

Some christian petite-bourgeois just bought out the small gas station/convenience store/restaurant. Had it closed for like a year. Ripped out the gas station. Sold it to someone else who then seems to have ripped out the small convenience store part as well and now it's just some overpriced sit-down/walk around restaurant quasi-foodtruck area with an uncomfortably large gravel area to the side and no scenery to appreciate but a busy rural road and a collapsing barn in the field in the back.

This has happened in my town