John Timmons is one of Best Buy’s best customers and one of the big box retailer’s biggest critics. Timmons, you see, owns the nationally-renowend independent record store, Ear X-tacy. And he knows the wholesale cost of the CDs he sells in his stores.
So when Timmons sees Best Buy advertising loss leaders at less than wholesale, […]

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On Sunday, the Louisville Independent Business Alliance is staging an event featuring the author of a book about the economic ills brought on by big-box retailers in the United States. Stacy Mitchell’s book, “Big Box Swindle,” blames mega-retailers like Lowe’s, Best Buy and Wal-mart for many of the ills of our national economy, from “the […]

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