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trgJams,
The store should be referred to as "your local Barnes and Noble store". Every brick and mortar store has a location, so it is local somewhere. But "local" is not the term which should be at issue here. The term is "locally owned". Barnes and Noble is not even a franchise. It is a corporately owned and operated store. No matter how well run it is, how good their programming is, how charitable it is, the major decisions will be made somewhere else, at the corporate level. The profit from the store goes to the corporation and its shareholders. So, while it is better for the local economy to shop at a Barnes & Noble than buying say from Amazon.com (who unlike Barnes & Noble doesn't pay local property tax, doesn't collect local or state sales tax, or employ anyone locally), it just still isn't the same as a store that is truly locally owned.
Marc
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