A Big-Box Wasteland?

Big box retail stores are eating away at the 'American soul like a cancer', argues SF Gate Columnist, Mark Morford.

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August 17, 2005, 2:00 PM PDT

"This is the new America. Our crazed sense of entitlement, our nearly rabid desire for easy access to mountains of bargain-basement junk has led to the upsurge of soulless big-box shops which has, in turn, led to a deadly sense of prefabricated, vacuous sameness wherever we go. And here's the kicker: We think it's good. We think it helps, brings jobs, tax money, affordable goods. We call it progress. We call it choice. It is the exact opposite."

Thanks to Adam Ploetz

Read the full story: One Happy Big-Box Wasteland

Wednesday, August 17, 2005 in The San Francisco Chronicle

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