Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses

Name: Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
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ISBN: 9780807035016

ISBN-10: 0807035017

ISBN-13: 9780807035016

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stacy Mitchell

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An expert's in-depth exploration of the enormous impact of mega-retailers--and what communities and independent businesses can do A Book Sense Pick and Annual Highlight Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising water pollution and diminished civic engagement. Mitchell's investigation takes us from the suburbs of Cleveland to a fruit farm in California, the stockroom of an Oregon Wal-Mart, and a Pennsylvania town's Main…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Stacy Mitchell is a Beacon Press author.



Introduction






Chain Store World



Fading Prosperity



Community Life



Blighted Landscape



Sometimes Low Prices



Monopolized Consumers






Uncle Sam's Invisible Hand



Communities Unchained



Declaration of Independents


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index