Community Owned Stores Offer Alternative To Chains
13 April 2004 - 12:00pm
A local response to Wal-Mart's global spread.
Residents of Middlebury, Vermont, don't want Wal-Mart, but they do need affordable housewares. A group of business owners and residents have hit upon a solution. They want to open a community-owned department store, modeled on half a dozen successful examples in Montana and Wyoming.
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