In seven pages this paper argues against retail chains and in favor of consumers patronizing locally owned shopping establishments instead. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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the September 11 terrorist attacks; after them there was nothing we could do to resist moving into the "bust" phase of the business cycle. Beginning with the airlines shortly
after the terrorist attacks and rippling through every industrial sector, layoffs have been in the news practically every week. Those still working have little confidence in their short-term futures;
everyone seems to be cautious in how they spend their money today. All the more reason to confine shopping to Wal-Mart, Kmart, Lowes
and Home Depot, right? Not in todays economy, and not in any other, either. A characteristic of a community is that for
whatever reason, all of the people contained within it choose to be there for one reason or another. Perhaps its home and the thought of going somewhere else just
never occurred to them. Perhaps theyve come to town seeking better opportunity than what they had in their own hometowns. Perhaps theyve been transferred here with their jobs,
or came to go to college and never left after school was done. The bottom line is that all of us and all of our activities constitute our community.
That includes all of our local businesses, those small, one-location things that have been closing at record rates since Wal-Mart came to town. Im here today to tell
you that we need to be supporting our small businesses, and Ill also tell you why. The Large-Chain Life Cycle Before we approved
our Super Wal-Marts building permit, some argued that Wal-Mart would come in here, undercut all the local merchants, put some of them out of business and then raise prices as