A lot of this shifted over the years to promote the consolidation of retail, the consolidation of industry, so that it just became untenable for these independent operators to exist. The second thing that happened was We stopped caring about the size [of companies]. We used to break up big companies when they got too big and the government stopped doing that. The technology obviously played a role here as you were able to more easily get goods online. (14:24–14:35)
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