Stacy Mitchell Talks Walmart and the Future of Big-Box Retail on San Francisco’s KALW

Date: 22 Aug 2012 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell was a guest on Your Call on San Francisco public radio station KALW. She joined host Rose Aguilar and Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect, for an hour-long conversation about how Walmart came to dominate the economy and what local business owners and retail workers are doing to counter its market power.… Read More

Local Ownership Makes Communities Healthier, Wealthier and Wiser

Date: 18 Jul 2012 | posted in: Retail | 5 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Most policymakers don’t imagine that their economic development decisions will affect such things as voter turnout or the prevalence of chronic disease. But a growing body of research is finding that scale and ownership of business matter in ways that extend far beyond economic outcomes.… Read More

Walmart Claims Its Stores are Magnets for Small Businesses; Not So, Research Finds

Date: 13 Jul 2012 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In its push to get into urban areas, Walmart is claiming that its stores are actually good for nearby small businesses, at least those that do not compete in the same product lines. But the empirical evidence — including a extensive study published recently in the Journal of Urban Economics — indicates otherwise. … Read More

Justice Department Abets Amazon’s E-Book Monopoly

Date: 20 Jun 2012 | posted in: Retail | 1 Facebooktwitterredditmail

For years, Amazon has used its size and market power to bully publishers and keep other retailers from competing in the e-book market.  And, for years, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has done nothing to constrain Amazon’s abuses or bring about a more competitive marketplace. So it was quite a shock last month when the … Read More

Amazon Infographic: How a Single Company Gained a Stranglehold over Online Shopping and the Future of Retail

Date: 5 Jun 2012 | posted in: Retail | 19 Facebooktwitterredditmail

This infographic tracks how Amazon bullied and swindled its way to becoming one of the most powerful retailers on the planet. On pace to be bigger than Walmart by decade’s end, Amazon already controls more than one-third of online shopping and is growing four times faster than e-commerce overall. … Read More

Walmart Heirs Quietly Fund Walmart’s Environmental Allies

Date: 16 May 2012 | posted in: Retail | 3 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The staggeringly rich Waltons, who own half of Walmart and have a net worth equal to the bottom one-third of Americans combined, are using their family foundation to reshape the environmental movement. Now the second largest grant-maker in the country, the Walton Family Foundation, is steering large grants to organizations that work closely with Walmart, helping to build its green image and reinforcing the power of large corporations in our economy. … Read More

Are Lightly Regulated States Really More Friendly to Small Businesses?

Date: 9 May 2012 | posted in: Retail | 2 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A new ranking of states based on “small business friendliness” gives low scores to those with more stringent environmental, labor, health & safety, and other regulations. The trouble with this analysis, however, is that many of the supposedly “unfriendly” states are actually home to much larger numbers of small businesses than the “friendly” states. … Read More

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