Community Wins: How Do You Buy Groceries When There’s No Grocery Store? These Communities Figured It Out

Date: 26 Oct 2023 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

From mobile markets to refrigerated food pick-up lockers, communities are exploring innovative new approaches to making sure their residents have convenient, affordable access to healthy food. Check out the latest in our Community Wins series. … Read More

Community Wins: In the Face of Consolidation, Communities are Opening Their Own Grocery Stores

Date: 2 Aug 2023 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Communities are adopting innovative strategies to sustain their grocery stores or create new ones amidst the challenges posed by grocery sector consolidation. Some local governments are even creating a public option by operating grocery stores themselves. Here’s how these places are ensuring access to fresh, healthy food. … Read More

On the Capitol Forum Podcast: Food Deserts, Rising Prices, and Antitrust

Date: 27 Jun 2023 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Inflation in the grocery sector is a cover story for monopoly power, Stacy Mitchell explains on the Capitol Forum podcast. The real cost of groceries can be traced to Walmart’s predatory tactics and failed antitrust enforcement. … Read More

WATCH: Fixing the Food Gap

Date: 23 May 2023 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

This virtual event featured Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya alongside community leaders, independent grocers, and advocates—to examine the ways these dominant retailers exert their power, how community leaders are fighting back, and what federal leaders must do to cultivate fairness in our food system.
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Report: The Dollar Store Invasion

Date: 28 Feb 2023 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In this report, we spotlight communities rising up against dollar chains and how federal policymakers need to address the ways in which misguided policies are fueling the destructive proliferation of dollar stores. … Read More

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