Co-ops, unions, small businesses are very beneficial many-fold. The disconnect from those benefits happens when a bigbox entity imparts people with sticker shock, or bargains, or lowest price guarantees. It’s not just a peoples’ will – it was will\choice becomes hidden or removed when bigbox puts down too many big roots.

I believe painful will be the transition because it will be long-drawn and painfully slow, to bounce back. Reasoning example- “…too many people are happy with what they have”.