Mitchell, Stacy. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Chain store world -- Fading prosperity -- Community life -- Blighted landscape -- Sometimes low prices -- Monopolized consumers -- Uncle Sam's invisible hand -- Communities unchained -- Declaration of independents. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780807035009 0807035009 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006013818 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Chain stores--United States.<br/>Retail trade--United States.<br/>Small business--United States.<br/>Chain stores.<br/>Retail trade--United States.<br/>Small business--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HF5468  / .M58 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>381/.12/0973 381/.120973