Chris Cummins
Staff Writer

Coppell, being a local community, has its fair share of local businesses owned by community members. One of these is Tony Cao Salon, a local hair and nail salon owned since 2001, which was recently shuttered in favor of a new Petco. This author is not so opinionated as to engage in some sort of angered diatribe against corporations in general, but as with any local community member who sees a home-grown store closed, due to the immutable economic pressure exerted by a much larger chain with deeper pockets, it stands as an occasion of sadness.

The same applies to Gloria’s Pizza, which ended 27 years of culinary service in the Coppell Area due to local downturns, moving twice just in order to gain new customers that would have otherwise gone to corporate stores. First it was a new CVS which prompted a move, and then finally an Albertsons that caused the pizzeria to shut it’s doors permanently. Hopefully, this sort of local exodus will be only temporary, and Coppell can retain a unique sort of front, rather than one perfected and mechanized countless times over in cities too many in number to name.

For more information on the effect of the end of local businesses, go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/