Misses former Valley stores

To the editor:

As spring approaches, I am becoming nostalgic for family-owned businesses and/or small businesses that have disappeared because of the advancement of big box businesses. I miss Fun n Fancy, a clothes shop that instead of mass-produced, cheap clothing, you found beautiful, one-of-a-kind items. I miss Piggly Wiggly and Kosloskey’s department store.

Your readers probably remember many more, but in essence, I am saying even though smaller prices, more merchandise, many more jobs, the jobs being menial, minimum wage where people get stuck with no advancement and no benefits and resembling a Nazi work camp in treatment of employees, we have lost more than we have gained.

This is what we call progress, but sometimes progress isn’t what we want.

Linda Sue Derflinger

Palmer