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BIG BOX SWINDLE: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses.
by Mitchell, Stacy
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0807035009
- ISBN 13
- 9780807035009
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Boston:: Beacon Press,, (2006.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. SIGNED on the title page. The subtitle really accurately describes this book - as Mitchell traces the dramatic growth of megastores - from big boxes like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Costco, and Staples to chains like Starbucks, Olive Garden, Blockbuster, and Old Navy - and the simultaneous decline of independent businesses, she also answers many of the arguments made in favor of these stores, and describes no-so-obvious impact of these companies and the big-box mentality on everything from soaring gasoline consumption to rising poverty rates, failing family farms, and declining voting levels. She exposes the role government policy has played in the expansion of mega-retailers and builds a compelling case that communities composed of many small, locally owned businesses are healthier and more prosperous than those dominated by a few large chains. A thoughtful and well-presented book by an author clearly in favor of independent stores. Notes, index, 317 pp.
Synopsis
Stacy Mitchell is a regular speaker and advisor to communities on retail development and independent business. A senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, she chairs the American Independent Business Alliance . Mitchell regularly contributes articles and commentaries to magazines and newspapers, and produces an acclaimed monthly email newsletter, The Hometown Advantage Bulletin. She lives in Portland, Maine.
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- Title
- BIG BOX SWINDLE: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses.
- Author
- Mitchell, Stacy
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0807035009
- ISBN 13
- 9780807035009
- Publisher
- Beacon Press,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- (2006.)
- Keywords
- walmart, lowes, home depot, starbucks, retail business, american society,
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- Business;
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