“Main Street requires shoppers who don’t really care about low prices. The dream of Main Street may be populist, but the reality is elitist”
It’s worth noting that the idealized Main Street is not a myth in some...
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“The fight to save Main Street, then as now, was less about the price of goods gained than the cost of autonomy lost”
…nostalgia for Main Street is misplaced — and costly. Small stores are inefficient. Local...
Main Street “unraveled in the 1960s and 1970s, as fair trade laws were repealed, manufacturers discovered overseas suppliers and unions came undone”
To save Main Street, state lawmakers in the 1930s passed “fair trade” legislation that...