Well, there are a lot of reasons, I suppose. It's hard to name just one, but I guess because it isn't profitable to run a produce section any closer? That's not a root cause, and it's not something that reveals individually actionable items, but it's what I have. I'm not even sure there a collective action the 300 residents could take, other than funding a non-profitable community grocery store, maybe? But most of the residents are living below the poverty line, and the ones that aren't are either retired or otherwise uninterested in that kind of community action.

There's only 19k people in the whole county and 15mi. is the distance from where I live to the county seat.

I agree that urban planning should stop subsiding cars. But, America is, by land mass, not very urban, and I'm stuck in one of those areas.