"Cutting corners" March 11, 2012|Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff
BRAINTREE — You can pretty much size up the state of the nation’s big-box retailers by surveying The Marketplace at Braintree: They are shrinking....
A symbol of the new retail order brought about by the Great Recession.
I thought that ended about two years ago. At least, that's what I was told by my lamestream media.
Similar changes are happening at shopping centers across the country. Brands such as Staples, Old Navy, and Kmart are downsizing their footprints to cut costs following a long period of tepid consumer spending and steady growth in online shopping....
I'll bet that online phenomena is familiar to the newspaper.
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