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Wal-Mart may contribute to obesity with its low prices on packaged foods, but the choice of location for Wal-Mart Super Centers helps increase the availability of calories, which means poor…
There are implications for occupational licensing in this: just having access to a local barber would keep that economic activity in the community instead of a barbershop being part of…
View in your browser. Home Depot is giving $500,000 each to Charleston, S.C. and Fayetteville, Ark., as part of its Sustainable Cities Program. See details here. Through its Sustainable Cities…
Candidates for mayor and alderman in Carrboro offer their views here on whether or not so-called big-box stores have a positive or negative impact on the communities they serve. Their…
Now that I have your attention, check out the rest of an interview with Richard Vedder, economics professor at Ohio University and author of the new book, The Wal-Mart Revolution:…
That’s the question I’ve been asked this weekend. I keep reading in the Uptown paper of record that the 1999 arrival of Target and Lowe’s (Lowe’s?) helped to kill Eastland.…
The AP reports that Chicago has become “the biggest city in the nation to require all employers big-box retailers to pay a ‘living wage.'” More on the ordinance, which passed…
Again, the big-box plops down, traffic goes up, neighborhood changed, and wait… It is not a Wal-Mart? Oh. What is it then? An IKEA. Oh, I see. Nevermind.
The world’s largest Wal-Mart opened last Wednesday in Rockingham, NC. Word from a friend who was at the opening was that 1,000 people were lined up waiting to get in.…
Obviously Wal-Mart, Target, etc. stand to benefit from yesterday’s Supreme Court decision.
Another reason why something must be done about the blight of these vacated big box stores.
I have nightmares like that when I visit Massachusetts.