You know it is a sh**ty neighborhood.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Two and a half weeks before Christmas, store staff and an entire neighborhood no longer have their market.

The Dollar General store on Lafayette Street served families for years. On Thursday, it closed out of the blue — permanently.

People in the community told us this is a huge issue because of the limited resources in this part of Nashville.

Community without nearby access to food and goods after Dollar General closes

In the Volunteer State, the number of Dollar General stores is almost the same as churches which is to mean there is a boatload of them. Some things are cheaper than in regular stores and some aren’t but what they do is to have presence everywhere, so you don’t have to go far to get basic items. It is not uncommon to be driving into some back road between small towns and suddenly see the big yellow sign announcing that even in the middle of nowhere, you can get chips, soda, smokes bread, milk and canned goods to survive the weekend.

So how bad does a neighborhood has to be to have a store close down? The article gives you some hints, probably unintended.

An area is considered a food desert if a large share of low-income residents are more than one mile from the nearest supermarket. That is the case in this situation.

Any business, including DG stays open if it generates a profit or at least breaks even. People need food so it stands to reason that a business selling foodstuff survives without issue. Apparently, that is not the case in that area.

"Why were the people not informed?" said Amanda Key. "Why weren't the employees who were fired not taken care of? That is so disrespectful."

Hmmm, I wonder why. Oh yes!

While Dollar General hasn't given a reason why it chose to close this location, people believe it was because of rampant theft and violence at the store.

According to a lengthy report obtained from Metro Police, nearly every day this year, police officers got called to the store or parking lot. There were several dozen calls for theft, and multiple robberies, hold-ups, and burglary calls. In May, a pregnant woman was carjacked by a group of teenagers.

Cutting their loses and saving themselves from potential lawsuits is disrespectful. Gotcha.

Do you want to take a guess who is at fault?

"Not everyone in this community participated in the wrongdoing," Key said.

Yet the entire community is now affected by what she calls Dollar General's "bad decision."

But wait, now comes in the politician to add more stupid to the already thick dumb porridge.

District 17 Council Member Terry Vo said she just wishes a solution other than closing the store was considered.

"Truly, I'm so shocked they cared more about removing the sign than the actual people," Vo said.

"We've been dealing with a food apartheid for decades and truly now it's a resource apartheid because people can't even get basic goods," Vo said.

What in the name of Baby Jesus is “food apartheid”? Probably just an attempt to incense opinion and let the complicit residents feel that it is the evil greedy corporation at fault and not their own criminal neighbors who made the location unprofitable and dangerous. It was not DG employees robbing and attacking people, but the local scum, but it is easier to point the fingers at the company selling cheap cigarrillos and beer.

And this one is a beauty..

Dollar General leases the building from MDHA (Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency ). A spokesperson for MDHA said that Dollar General moved to a month-to-month lease last year. Like the employees, MDHA said their staff was not aware that the store was planning to close.

Whomever said that should be immediately fired by MDHA for either being a liar or tremendously stupid. That switch of lease times is a “hint” louder than all the church bells that run across the world celebrating the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral.

I am just guessing, but besides not getting a profit, there might be a legal question added to the mix and that is to have that location tagged as a public nuisance and have the Nashville Metro close it, confiscating its contents (the building belongs to the city anyway) and be subjected to fines plus getting a media-induced black eye.

The sad part is that people will not learn from this event just as they have not learned for past experiences because they simply refuse to accept responsibility, and it feels better to accuse other of the self-created misfortune.