Dear Editor,
It was recently announced that a new retail, hotel, and residential development will be built next to Ace Hardware in Eatonton. With Publix as the anchor tenant, our local Nextdoor forum quickly erupted into a flurry of criticism and dismay: claims of monopolization, disappointment that it wasn’t Kroger, and so on.
To those who express doubt, I’d encourage them to visit the new Publix i…