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DESCRIPTION:Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher with the New Rules Project at the 
 Institute for Local Self Reliance discusses her new book "Big-Box Swindle: 
 The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent 
 Businesses"\n\n\nLarge 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 Street. She uncovers the 
 shocking role government policy has played in the expansion of 
 mega-retailers and builds a compelling case that communities composed of 
 many small businesses are healthier and more prosperous than those 
 dominated by large chains. More than a critique, Big-Box Swindle (Beacon 
 Press) draws on real life to show how some communities are successfully 
 countering the spread of mega-retailers and rebuilding their local 
 economies. Mitchell describes innovative approaches-from cutting-edge 
 land-use policies to small-business initiatives-that together provide a 
 detailed road map to a more prosperous and sustainable future.\n\n 
 \n\n\n\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/11/18307589.php
SUMMARY:Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers, a talk by Stacy Mitchell
LOCATION:Cody's Books\n2 Stockton Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/11/18307589.php
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