These stores are not merely a symptom of economic distress; they’re a cause of it. Learn how your community can stop dollar stores and join us in calling for federal action to rein in their predatory tactics.
In this report, we look at how the dollar chains are using predatory tactics to kill off grocery stores and other local businesses, harming rural and urban communities alike. We also document the rising tide of grassroots opposition to these stores and explain why federal policymakers must act.
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This virtual event featured Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya alongside community leaders, independent grocers, and advocates—to examine the ways 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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little-noticed court ruling last November recognizes that towns and cities have broad authority to reject dollar store development — if they believe it is not...
Another city is fighting back against dollar chains. The Chicago City Council has voted to enact an ordinance that will limit development of new chain...
“Eliminating food deserts requires many solutions. But there is one absolutely essential action: preventing dollar stores from proliferating,” Tulsa City Council Member Vanessa Hall-Harper and...
A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasis… Read More
More than 75 cities and towns have defeated dollar store projects in the last four years. Our new strategy guide can help you keep these...
Community leaders have good reason to be concerned about chain dollar stores. … Read More
As dollar stores multiply rapidly across the U.S., cities are developing dollar store-specific policies to rein in their growth. Such policies include “dispersal restrictions” that...
Original maps from eight U.S. cities show how numerous dollar stores have become in urban America and reveal a striking pattern between dollar store locations...
Dollar General is stealing from its customers. It’s a major scam that’s siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from the poorest people in America. In...
Kennedy Smith was on The Hustle to spell out why dollar stores are so problematic for our pocketbooks and our communities.… Read More
On the local NPR affiliate, Stacy explains how dollar stores prey on communities. … Read More
Zinhle Essamuah reports on the ILSR findings that dollar stores are pulling sales away from local grocery stores in predominantly rural, low-income Black and Latino...