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<br />6. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship fuels America's economic innovation and
<br />prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs
<br />and into the middle class.
<br />7. Public Benefits and Costs. Local stores in town centers require comparatively
<br />little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big
<br />box stores and strip shopping malls.
<br />8. Environmental Sustainability. Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact,
<br />walkable town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl,
<br />automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
<br />9. Competition. A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best
<br />way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
<br />10. Product Diversity. A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products
<br />based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of
<br />their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
<br />References and Notes
<br />Shuman, Michael (1998). Going Local: Creating Self-reliant Communities in a Global Age. New
<br />York: The Free Press.
<br />Shuman, Michael (2006). The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global
<br />Competition. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Press.
<br />1 Tischler & Associates, "Town of Barnstable: Fiscal Impact Study pf Non- Residential Land Use
<br />Prototype Summary," July 2002.20 Kennedy Smith, Executive Director, National Main Street Center.
<br />2. Todd Danlanyer, Communications Director, National Community Pharmacists Association. Cited
<br />in http:Jhvww.ptvermont.or~/publications/H.omesrownEconomy/Homeerown%20Economv.pdf
<br />3 Dan Cullen, "Independents Hold Market Share for 2001; Market Share by Dollar Grows,"
<br />Bookselling This Week, April 18, 2002.
<br />4 "2003 Mazket Measure," Do-lt-Yourself Retailing, November 2002.
<br />5 Mary Hendrickson, Ph.D., William D. Heffernan, Ph.D.. Philip H. Howard and Judith B. Heffernan.
<br />"Consolidation in Food Retailing and Dairy: Implications for Farmers and Consumers in a Global
<br />Food System," National Farmers Union, January 8, 2001.
<br />6 Carol Emert, "Staying Alive Amid Office Superstores," San Francisco Chronicle, June 20, 1998.
<br />7 "Video Stores Seek Class Action in Suit against Blockbuster," The Home Town Advantage Bulletin,
<br />Institute for Local Self- Reliance, November 2000.
<br />8 "Top 100," Nation's Restaurant News, June 24, 2002.
<br />9 Patricia A. Frishkoff and Alicja M. Kostecka, "Business Contributions to Community Service,"
<br />Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration, October 1991.
<br />10 Land Use, Inc. and RKG Associates, "Greenfield, Massachusetts: Fiscal and Economic Impact
<br />Assessment of the Proposed Wal-Mart Development," April 2, 1993.
<br />11 Vermont Environmental Board, Re: St. Albans Group and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Findings of Fact,
<br />Conclusions of Law, and Order (Altered), Application #6F0471-EB, June 27, 1995.
<br />12 These are statewide averages. Living wage estimates vary depending on location and such factors
<br />as whether an employer provides health insurance. Vermont Joint Fiscal Office, "Basic Needs
<br />Budgets and the Minimum Wage," January 15, 2003, p. 7.
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