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Big Box Store, Boutique Price: Target's Designer Collaborations

Alexandra Sinderbrand | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Tracy Feith, Designer Collabs, Designers, Target, Alexander McQueen, Big Box Stores, Anna Sui, Disocount Shopping, Discount Stores, Style News
Alexandra Sinderbrand

Now Target is just another place that enables designer deities to do what they do best: Rip us off.

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As Retailers Cut Back CIties Confront 'Ghostboxes'

AP | JAMES MacPHERSON | Posted 08.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Ghostboxes, Stores, Box Stores, Big Box Stores, Business News

BISMARCK, N.D. — Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.'s ribbon-cutting c...

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Buy Local, Buy American

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Big Box Stores, Shopping, Buy American, Living News
Maria Rodale

I'm not against China, or globalism. But right now, America needs all the money we can give it. And we need to reward the very few Americans who are still making things here.

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More Suburbs Fighting Against Big Box Stores

Daily Herald | Larissa Chinwah | Posted 02.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wal Mart, Chicago Suburbs Zoning, Big Box Stores, Chicago Big Box Stores, West Dundee Wal Mart, Chicago Suburbs Development, Wal Mart Development, Chicago News

An empty field surrounded by family homes, soccer fields, baseball diamonds and a shopping mall on West Dundee's northern border is the latest battleg...

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What America Got For Christmas

Reverend Billy | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Local Politics, Economy, Christmas, Holiday Season, Shopping, Consumer Economy, Holiday Season Commentary, Retail, Big Box Stores, Bartering, Retail Bubble, Retail Sales, Local Economies, Chain Stores, Commercial Christmas, Spending Less, Trading, Living News
Reverend Billy

So the retail bubble finally burst, with some estimating an extreme contraction of up to 8%. An America where local economies strike a balance with the big companies is clearly the idea.

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The Big Box Paradox: Should We Shop At Wal-Mart?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 01.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Workers' Rights, Walmart, Elanor Starmer, Industrial Organic, Wal-Mart, Organic, Ethicurean, Big Box Stores, Sustainability, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Now that Wal-Mart has jumped on the organic bandwagon, it's making organic products available to folks who lack the access or means to shop at farmers' markets or, say, Whole Foods.

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Retailers Lower Forecasts Amid Bleak Sales Reports

New York Times | MICHAEL BARBARO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Target, Retail Industry, Retail, Wal-Mart, Nordstrom, Big Box Stores, Business News

Retailers are in for a rough fall. Across the board, big chain stores reported bleak September same-store sales this morning. As a result, more than ...

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