When population- 1,500 Lockney, Texas, lost its longtime grocery store last fall, Joy Dalrymple knew the community was in trouble. Although the city’s Lowe’s was by no means the largest or newest in the Littlefield- based chain, it kept jobs, dollars, and sales tax local—and provided a place for neighbors to connect and to stock their larders without a ten-mile trip to Floydada or a longer one to…
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