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Chain stores

The Acme Corporation

by Alec MacGillis,

A town fights back against a big-box coup

Buyers, sellers, and forgers

by Milton Esterow,

The strange new art market

Come and get it

by Stanley J. (Stanley Joshua) Goodman,

Mass distribution after the war

The chain-store mind

by Jesse Rainsford Sprague,

Reflections of a shopkeeper

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