Grocery Goliath: Small-town Nebraska grocery stores disappear as Dollar General booms - Flatwater Free Press

Grocery Goliath: Small-town Nebraska grocery stores disappear as Dollar General booms - Flatwater Free Press

OAKLAND — If you drive down U.S. Highway 77, you won’t see the grocery store that has managed to keep afloat in this town for more than 100 years. It’s five blocks off the highway, on Oakland’s main drag.  What you will see is a bright yellow sign, beckoning highway drivers to make a pit stop. You’ll see the beige cinder block storefront and metal warehouse walls plopped between cornfields and the highway.  In small-town Nebraska, it’s an instan…