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Mcjobs By Eric Schlosser Summary

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Big business take over small businesses, which is bad. In the short story, “McJobs” by Eric Schlosser it talks about how small businesses aren't being heard so they don't have enough money so they close down. In the first place, small businesses don't exist anymore. There are family run stores that close down . They don't grow because of all the big stores. Today we see the same store almost all of the USA. We see Taco Bell, KFC, McDonald, and many more almost everywhere. Overall, it's very hard for small businesses to grow. Second one of all, we are losing trees, because of the big business. In 1942 there were around 3 million apples and peach trees, today there are only 300,000 apple and peach trees. We are losing a lot of trees and today farmers sell land to real estate developers. In either case, farmers don't have enough trees so they are selling land. …show more content…

In 1980 the land was sold for 350,000 and then sold small pieces of land and made 3 million dollars. The land has chain stores, before they had no chain stores so the owner of the town added some chain stores that people loved and the town became more popular. After all, small businesses can become big business although it's harder when there are so many big business. In conclusion, big business can take over small businesses, although small businesses could turn into big business. It is hard to become a big business especially if there are a lot of chain stores in the town or city. The business just need to have things that people like. Just like in the town Martinsburg, it added chain stores and it became more popular. As can be seen, it's hard to get a small store to become a chain store, but it is

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