America is a much larger more cohesive market, which means specific communities have no affect on the national company which has expanded to other countries as well.
The individual nations in Europe are the size of individual American states, and can only be compared when talking about the European Single Market as a whole, which is new and filled with the vestiges of national companies that are just getting around to expanding into their neighboring countries.
The American experience has been removed from communities for a very long time that corporate apathy is the expected experience.
