Big-Box Store
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Basics
- A Term for a rather recent form of commerce
- It essentially merges a Warehouse and a Point of Sale
- Thus the need for warehouses can be reduced, increasing profits, and the consumer can "get everything at one store"
- Most are designed primarily around car tranit, and thus have huge Parking Lots
- This has gathered criticism as a failure of Urban Planning (See Complete Streets and New Urbanism )