Culture
Why In-Town Big Box Stores Might Not Be As Awful As You Think
There's evidence the presence of a big box store in the city center helps reduce the amount most people drive.
City-dwellers love to rag on big box stores. They’re large and ugly and kind of dehumanizing. They require vast seas of surface parking. They sell the antithesis of the idealized urban shopping experience, in which a shopper on foot might hit multiple locally owned specialty shops for her hardware, her art supplies and her bubble bath.
What’s there to possibly like about the big-box alternative?