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

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

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

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

Written by Stacy Mitchell
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In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. 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 pollution and diminished civic engagement—and she shows how a growing number of communities and independent businesses are effectively fighting back. Mitchell traces the dramatic growth of mega-retailers—from big boxes like Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Costco, and Staples to chains like Starbucks, Olive Garden, and Old Navy—and the precipitous decline of independent businesses. Drawing on examples from virtually every state in the country, she unearths the extraordinary 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. Along the way, Mitchell exposes the shocking 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.More than a critique, Big-Box Swindle provides an invigorating account of how some communities have successfully countered the spread of big boxes and rebuilt their local economies. Since 2000, groups of ordinary citizens have halted more than two hundred big-box development projects, and scores of towns and cities have adopted laws that favor small-scale, local business development and limit the proliferation of chains. From cutting-edge land-use policies to innovative cooperative small-business initiatives, Mitchell offers communities concrete strategies that can stave off mega-retailers and create a more prosperous and sustainable future.

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Language Eng
Publisher Beacon Press
Published January 1, 2006
ISBN 439956
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Stacy Mitchell is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Stacy Mitchell enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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