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The article discusses American Consumerism. As mass production has revolutionized American family life, so mass distribution is revolutionizing the community life of America. Not many years ago, practically every retail business in American towns and cities was owned and operated by local capital and talent. It is not so today. In Anderson, South Carolina, a city of 14,500 people, twenty-three of the best business locations on Main Street have been turned over to out-of-town merchants. In Framingham, Massachusetts, six chain stores, lined up together, practically monopolize the best business district of the city. |
