Bixby, Oklahoma, 258t

Brie Salmons, 65n13, 90f

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, 258t

Brookings Institution, 209, 231

Building and Garden Equipment, 87t

Building materials, 108t, 109t, 113t, 115t

Building moratorium, 274t

Bureau of Economic Analysis, 12f, 29, 87f, 135

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 125, 135, 150f, 151, 153f

Business Week (see also Businessweek), 20

Cabela’s, 197

California, 28, 31, 77t, 85, 127, 175t, 178t, 195, 196, 199, 200, 202, 203t, 210, 211t, 247, 268, 270, 283t, 285

Canada, 12, 29

Case studies, 36, 74

Cash-and-carry, 118

Center for Business and Economic Research, 30, 127n9

CEO, 123

Chain Store, 1, 3–21, 23, 54, 55, 61, 118, 155, 156f, 222, 230, 236, 265, 281

Chain store paradox, 281n7

Chain store tax, 17f, 18–20, 290–292, 293t

Charitable Giving, 230, 232–235

Charleston, Missouri, 257t

Chicago, 77t, 278–280

China, 147n7, 151, 269n2

Clarence Sherrill, 17

Clayton Act, 20, 281

Clothing / Clothing Accessories, 87t

Clustering Effect, 32–34

Color / Material Restrictions, 274t

Colorado, 175t, 178t, 192, 271, 283t, 287t

Colorado Economic and Demographic Information System, 192

Colton, California, 200t

Committee on Education and the Workforce, 285

Common Mall Façade, 274t

Competitive (see also competitiveness), 72, 100, 118n5, 121–123, 125, 126, 133, 147, 161, 226, 244, 282

Conditional Use Permits (CUPs) (see zoning, Site Specific Review, Absolute bans), 268–273

Congressional Budget Office, 150

Congressional Record, 21

Congressman George Miller (D-CA), 285

Connecticut, 175t, 178t, 212t, 214, 283t

Consolidation, 257, 258

Consumer Goods Pricing Act of s1975, 24, 269n2

Consumer Prices, 72, 125, 126, 161, 301f, 302

Consumerism (see also consumerist), 12n3, 118, 119

Contiguous (see also cross-border), 75, 92n5, 216, 242

Co-Op America, 131n10

Cornell University, 224

Corona, California, 200t

Corporate Social Responsibility, 285

Corporate Tax, 174, 180, 181

Corporate welfare, 195

Corporation, 180t, 230

Corvina, California, 200t

Creative destruction, 26, 140

D. Pender Grocery Co., 8t

Daniel Reeves Safeway, 8t