Big Boxes

One more time: Walmart:
Does not create vast amounts of new jobs, they merely replace well paying small business jobs with low paying no benefit retail jobs.
Big Boxes does nothing to preserve or add to the image or flavor of a small town, in fact it destroys retail centers, downtowns, and any resemblence of ambivance.
Productivity is a result of paying its people low wages and forcing suppliers to provide ever lower cost goods by offshoring all production. Any low prices are paid for by American jobs and thousands of impoverished vendors
Is not a good community resource, avoiding any civic responsibility it can, and leaving in its wake additional crime activity and insecurity