Frankly, I hope one of the effects of the recession/depression is to thin out the big box stores in a big way. It's like a huge, hulking reminder of what overconsumption looks like at the retail level. Malls are bad enough. Big boxes are consumption stripped down to warehouses, sprawling parking lots and terrible service. I can't see how they survive in their current form, spreading like herpes along the freeways of so many cities, dependent on cheap credit and lots of expendable income that is vanished.