Basker, Emek; Klimek, Shawn; Van, Pham Hoang - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008
This paper documents and explains the recent rise of "big-box" general merchandisers. Data from the Census of Retail Trade for 1977-2007 show that general-merchandise chains grew much faster than specialist retail chains, and that general merchandisers that added the most stores also made the...