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Big-Box Retail Unraveling

by on February 20, 2013


The Era Of Giant Chain Stores Is Over — And They’ve Ruined America

The unintended consequence of [chain store] victories through the 1970s and beyond was the total destruction of local economic networks, that is, Main Streets and downtowns, in effect destroying many of their own livelihoods. Wasn’t that a bargain, though?

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, WalMart managed to


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Does Your Job Provide Insufficient Humiliation?

by on April 13, 2012

Walmart Supercenter, Longmont, Colorado:

Via The Daily What

Context can be everything. Here’s what I tend to think of when I hear this song.…
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