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Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
by Mitchell, Stacy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0807035009
- ISBN 13
- 9780807035009
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange boards & endpapers, black cloth spine with foil titles, xviii, 318 pp, notes, index. Bottom corners of a few leaves creased. DJ price-clipped, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "Mitchell traces the dramatic growth of mega-retailers...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." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.
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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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BURT00003
- Title
- Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
- Author
- Mitchell, Stacy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0807035009
- ISBN 13
- 9780807035009
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Business Retail
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business History;
- X weight
- 32 oz
- Size
- 23½ X 16 cm
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