Strategies: Be smarter not just smaller

June 13, 2008

Over the last couple of decades, few things have changed the landscape for small businesses as much as the advent of huge megastores. In communities across America, downtowns were shuttered once a Walmart opened, and the friendly local hardware store had to close its doors when a Home Depot moved in.

My response has been two-fold:

By Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY

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