Thanks. Its our main destination for shopping and services. Being a college town, it offers a little more than other small towns of its size. A little bit of Vermont history... Vermont passed a law in 1970 that effectively kept out "big box" retailers until 1997 when the first Walmart big box was built. They snuck in a couple by skirting the law in 1995 and 1996 basically reducing the size of the stores and retrofitting existing buildings.