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Big-box swindle : the true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for America's independent businesses / Stacy Mitchell.

By: Mitchell, Stacy.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2006Description: xviii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780807035009; 0807035009.Subject(s): Chain stores -- United States | Retail trade -- United States | Small business -- United States | Chain stores | Retail trade -- United States | Small business -- United StatesDDC classification: 381/.12/0973 | 381/.120973
Contents:
Chain store world -- Fading prosperity -- Community life -- Blighted landscape -- Sometimes low prices -- Monopolized consumers -- Uncle Sam's invisible hand -- Communities unchained -- Declaration of independents.
Summary: 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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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.

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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