Title: Planet Money: Entrepreneurs Created the Big Box Store
Course: Tennessee Economics Sample Syllabus > Section: Standard 3: 🛒Market Structures

Some basic economic norms shape how most retail stores operate. These include: attract as many potential shoppers as possible; make it easy for them to find what they need; and make it appealing for them to return often so that they will spend money at the store. But some members-only warehouse stores break all those rules—and succeed anyway. Listen to find out why these stores do it differently and why, despite breaking the rules of retail, they thrive.