Over the past few years, there has been a huge and ongoing conflict against the opening of the big box stores that are famous throughout America. “Big Box” is the new term used to describe the massive, one-story, rectangular retail stores occupying between 90,000 and 200,000 square feet and surrounded by a huge parking lot. They are designed to accommodate a large number of products as well as a billboard shape that effectively attracts customers. These stores are strangely loved and hated by American citizens. Many absolutely love them because they offer individuals good quality products at low prices, efficient and convenient service, and it is often said that these stores not only create many job opportunities in the suburbs, but that they also significantly increase local tax revenues. “All customers appreciate good service, low prices and a large selection,” suggests Walt-Mart (Beaumont). Although it seems that the consequences of the presence of these stores are all positive, one must closely analyze the long-term effects in order to realize that they can cause permanent damage to communities. There are certainly many hidden costs incurred by these big box stores that do not appear on the price tags of the products they sell: traffic jams; loss of trees, open space and agricultural land; displacement of small businesses; air and water pollution; city ​​centers with vacant buildings; abandoned shopping centers; a degraded sense of community and urban sprawl. » It is therefore necessary to study the opportunity cost of building these stores in suburban areas to decide if they are actually higher, which would make it better to avoid them at least some distance from residential spaces ( Codey). "Really convenient? Those fighting to keep big-box stores say they are very convenient. They suggest consumers can shop quickly with just one stop where they can get much of what they need. which they need. It is true that they can do their shopping in the same place, but in return, they have to be in traffic for much longer every day. The existence of these large stores causes heavy congestion in the communities; those who live nearby deal with traffic throughout their regular activities. “Sometimes you get out of the parking lot and you have to wait two or three cycles to pass the light on Nimitz Highway,” said Jonah Maehara, sales representative. from Koha Oriental Foods “And these are very long cycles” (Leidemann.).