Flaxmere's only supermarket to close

[Lilith7]

Supermarkets aren't charities and $21,000,000 is a lot of money even for a supermarket. Even if it was doing well, it would still take many years for for the owners to pay off that sort of investment, and the linked articles suggest it wasn't performing that well. 
With a Pak'n'Save only 10 min down the road, I'm sure most people will cope with the closure just fine.  Also, if they're mostly low income households, they should already he shopping at Pak'n'Save and not New World anyway.

There's zero chance anyone would mistake them for charities; nonetheless businesses needn't always be ruthless & uncaring. They forget that without customers, they'd have no business at all.

There may very well be people without transport who need to get groceries, & regardless of their income I think they're capable of deciding for themselves where to shop.