Showing posts with label chains and big box monstrosities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chains and big box monstrosities. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Economic extraction: Wait, do you mean big box "dark" stores want property tax breaks that aren't available to indie businesses? I'm shocked. SHOCKED.

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You know, principles and shit. I've arranged Stacy Mitchell's tweets in essay format. As Mitchell notes, the discussion goes ba...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Chain and big box subsidies cost us far more than we imagine, but who cares so long as Starbucks is there?

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From the linked Strong Towns article. I've always wondered if the presumed "neutrality" of chains and big boxes -- they...
Monday, October 09, 2017

"Swaps" to support local businesses -- because, DEATH TO CHAINS.

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In terms of size, there are no useful analogies between the nation's capital and New Albany. We're obviously far smaller, but I l...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

LIVE TO EAT: Chick-fil-A, that "billion-dollar company whose foundation spent a small fortune funding groups that oppose equal rights for marginalized and bullied people."

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A useful reminder why not . Why does Deaf needs Chick-fil-A as a sponsor, anyway? Shouldn't it be Bob Norwood's insurance com...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Death to chains, by the numbers -- "The Multiplier Effect of Local Independent Businesses."

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The obvious question: If local independent business recirculates more revenue locally, why do the local government economic incentives an...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

Death (and bizarre zombie afterlife) to chains.

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I have a dim memory of seeing that Chi Chi's in Luxembourg, probably in 2002. Kenny Rogers Roasters food never passed my lips. Rax? M...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Challenges for independent local businesses include one-way streets and Big Box tax evasion.

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Break the chains, build local power. On the eve of another monthly merchant meeting (Tuesday morning, 8:30 a.m., Cafe 157 at the corne...

"The dirty little secret of big box development – and it’s really not a secret – is that the buildings are designed to be abandoned."

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It's Big Box Week at Strong Towns , while here in Southern Indiana, it's Big Box Week every week of the year. Big Box Week , b...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

CM Blair's bank, the State Street exurb, commercial dereliction, corporate welfare and non-transparency.

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Lightning Food Mart is an excellent example of the durability of locally-owned independent small business. Conversely, most of State S...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Is the end of Guitar Center the end of big box retail? We can only hope.

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As my friend Clint noted when passing along this essay, "Longish and a bit wonky, but this section caught my eye." Indeed. To be...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Farewell to Red Lobster?

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Gads, without Red Lobster and Olive Garden ... where would denizens of the exurb go for authentic seafood and Italian like momma used to mak...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Millions of zombie shoppers can't be wrong: Thanksgiving retailing and the intrusion of consumerism.

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I'm unsure what can be done when the sheep willingly embrace the instruments of their prospective slaughter. Protests mark Black Frid...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

City to take Home Depot & Meijer to the woodshed, and with luck, their big boxed butts will be paddled mercilessly.

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Of course, Business First gets all corporate-fluff tumescent on us and immediately shifts into full financial circle jerk mode, with "a...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Kunstler: "There will be no new chain store brands to replace the dying ones. That phase of our history is over."

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Here's another commentary you'll not be reading at the "local" chain newspaper. The Era of Giant Chain Stores Is Over -...
Sunday, September 02, 2012

“The major policy recommendation from the report was that the city require an economic impact study [for large formula businesses].”

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I have a recurring fantasy, in which each city council member must read an article like this one and provide a cogent summary in real Englis...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

"I think it's pretty bad .. we don't really need these chains."

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I've never been to Totnes. Now I want to go. When I do, there'll be no Costa Coffee for me. If the people who live in Totnes have th...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

One reason why the choice of River View retail tenants matters.

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As noted yesterday ... Are they protesting loudly? Previously:  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... and Hauss Square.
Monday, October 31, 2011

PizzaGate: Just making a point about localization, Candidate Oakley. Nothing more, nothing less.

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The photo was cribbed from Matt Oakley's 6th district candidate site on Facebook . We've brought PizzaGate to your attention precise...
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Can you identify these pizza boxes?

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It's hard to see the logo, and obviously I wouldn't have any way of knowing this, so help me: Are these pizza chain pizza boxes? Pap...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Thinking "local," and ROTFLMAO.

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I glanced at Think Local Southern Indiana's page at Facebook , and noticed a tout (from Think Local's very own page administrator) f...
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