Mitchell, Stacy.
Big-box swindle : the true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for America's independent businesses / Stacy Mitchell. - Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2006. - xviii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chain store world -- Fading prosperity -- Community life -- Blighted landscape -- Sometimes low prices -- Monopolized consumers -- Uncle Sam's invisible hand -- Communities unchained -- Declaration of independents.
Publisher's Weekly Booklist
Examines how, over a twenty-year-span of time, large retail chains have squeezed out small independent businesses; and describes how many communities have fought back to keep the mega-retailers out of their towns.
Adult Follett Library Resources
9780807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780807035009 0807035009
2006013818
Chain stores--United States.
Retail trade--United States.
Small business--United States.
Chain stores.
Retail trade--United States.
Small business--United States.
HF5468 / .M58 2006
381/.12/0973 381/.120973
Big-box swindle : the true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for America's independent businesses / Stacy Mitchell. - Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2006. - xviii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chain store world -- Fading prosperity -- Community life -- Blighted landscape -- Sometimes low prices -- Monopolized consumers -- Uncle Sam's invisible hand -- Communities unchained -- Declaration of independents.
Publisher's Weekly Booklist
Examines how, over a twenty-year-span of time, large retail chains have squeezed out small independent businesses; and describes how many communities have fought back to keep the mega-retailers out of their towns.
Adult Follett Library Resources
9780807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780807035009 0807035009
2006013818
Chain stores--United States.
Retail trade--United States.
Small business--United States.
Chain stores.
Retail trade--United States.
Small business--United States.
HF5468 / .M58 2006
381/.12/0973 381/.120973