What is up with local companies??

Question

There is none

Answer 1

yeah, there is none in the downtown of Sapa, Vietnam

Answer 2

Political policies are allowing centralization of power.  Working class businesses are closing.  Coops are secretly becoming for a few wealthy.  People enjoy cheap products from slave labor camps in South America and China (Walmart: the high cost of low prices.)

Hillary was on the Walmart Board.  Huckabee probably also has a lot to do with them.  

Taxes used to come from corporations and import tarrifs.  Today taxes come from the working class while corporations have their taxes eliminated.  Free trade sends jobs overseas to places that have less human rights.