materialism Arbitrage nomads are stripping the carcasses of America's dying big-box stores and moving the choicest morsels into Amazon warehouses Cory Doctorow
dark store theory America's big box stores sucked up corporate welfare and killed Main Street — now they're ducking property tax Cory Doctorow
asset-stripping Private equity killed big box retailers, leaving empty big boxes across America, and architects have plans Cory Doctorow
retail apocalypse Blame the US Retail Apocalypse on hedge funds and financialization, not Amazon and Walmart Cory Doctorow