Mitchell, Stacy.

Big-box swindle : the true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for America's independent businesses / Stacy Mitchell. - Boston : Beacon Press, c2006. - xviii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-298) and index.

Chain store world -- Fading prosperity -- Community life -- Blighted landscape -- Sometimes low prices -- Monopolized consumers -- Uncle Sam's invisible hand -- Communities unchained -- Declaration of independents.

0807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780807035009 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2006013818


Chain stores--United States.
Retail trade--United States.
Small business--United States.

HF5468 / .M58 2006

381/.120973