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Big-box swindle : the true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for America's independent businesses / Stacy Mitchell.
Lippincott Library HF5468 .M58 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Stacy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chain stores--United States.
- Chain stores.
- Small business.
- United States.
- Retail trade--United States.
- Retail trade.
- Small business--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 318 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising water pollution and diminished civic engagement.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-298) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807035009
- OCLC:
- 67774163
- Publisher Number:
- 9780807035009
- Online:
- Publisher description
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