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Independent America The Two-Lane Search for Mom and Pop

Dismayed by the ubiquity of corporate chains, former MSNBC reporter Hanson Hosein and NBC reporter Heather Hughes sets off on a road trip across America to search for Mom and Pop businesses. Across the country independent bookstores, restaurants, and grocery stores vanish, driven out of business by monolithic big-box retailers like Wal-Mart. The filmmakers also discover widespread discontent and resistance to corporate monopolies....

Keywords:: corporate chains, starbucks, entrepreneurial leadership, big box retailer, entrepreneurship, social responsibility, hanson hosein, sustainability, independent business, corporations, economics, ethics, management, regulation, growth, governance, independent america, strategy, big, wal-mart, social enterprise, video, competition, business law, shopping, government, north america, business, small business

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 6, 2011
Date Modified in MERLOT:: March 8, 2021
Author:: Mindgate Media
Submitter:: Lisa Lewin
Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Technical Format:: Video

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International