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...visitor from abroad running the Marathon sees a case study of American landscape built for the automobile society. You meet sidewalks only occasionally, in the town centers. To get from the garden store to the Big D Wonder Mart to the HeadQuarters hair salon, you need a car. Without the automobile, this strip development would not make sense...
...radio. Alternative becomes a section of the record store or a way to advertise the latest nightclub. The alternative rock fan discovers that he is, horror of horrors, part of a target market. We eat the music they feed us, just like the people who buy tapes at K-Mart. It just takes us less time to digest...
Then there is the matter of basic economics. James McConkey can't scientifically prove it, but his hunch is that people who drive 20 miles to a Wal-Mart, and so contribute to the decline of their town, end up paying higher taxes, which is a premium for the merchandise they get. Eventually, the pendulum will swing, the marketplace will adjust. That is what American capitalism is all about, as Mr. Sam knew as well as any merchant of the modern...
...American enterprises, no matter how huge and momentarily successful, have enjoyed uninterrupted bliss. The betting in dozens of tiny stores around the country is that Wal-Mart will reach its own plateau. Despite the superb management team Walton left in place, his death will inevitably mean that the soul of his corporation will change. Community irritation at secretive and standoffish ways of Wal-Mart managers, the "us" (Wal-Mart) against "them" (downtown merchants) attitude, and the modest involvement in public affairs and charities by store officers are building resentment...
...Mart revolution makes downtown merchants...