[jaipilot747]

> The Large Scale Store Act of 1973

> Now, the small businesses could slow down the large businesses by 4-5 years or even completely freeze them out.

Sounds like the law of unintended consequences caught up with them.

If not for this law, they would have only had to contend with a few large shopping centers. Instead they now have to deal with one (much better) convenience store on practically every street!

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Suffering the indignity of having goods and services coming to them (like roman patrons?), rather than they having to go to forage for goods and services (like roman clientele?)...