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UNIVERSITY, INC.

By | March 2000

SXSW FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! My friend Andy calls the inexorable spread of homogenizing chain retailers and corporate megastores that wipe out local businesses the “Walmart-ization” of America…

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UNIVERSITY, INC.

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