Analysis shows how the failure to enforce the Robinson-Patman Act fueled grocery-sector consolidation, leading to food deserts and rising prices.
ILSR's brief explains how corporate consolidation fueled high food prices, and the critical role independent grocers play in building resilient local food systems.
The Mamdani administration has a crucial opportunity to reverse New York City's affordability crisis; this ILSR policy memo suggests strategies to do so.
Newly unsealed FTC filing accuses PepsiCo of favoring Walmart while artificially inflating prices for local grocers and consumers.
Stacy Mitchell talks to WBUR's 1A about the economic and policy forces creating a challenging environment for independent businesses.
Federal judge rules keeping complaint sealed "cannot be justified" in light of public interest.
Analysis reveals Amazon's contracts undermine procurement safeguards while independent suppliers offer better prices, service, and transparency.
Amazon has quietly captured a growing share of government purchasing. This major report explains how, and what to do about it.
Motion seeks to reveal details of complaint alleging PepsiCo gave preferential pricing to big-box retailer while harming independent grocers and consumers.
99% Invisible, with Stacy Mitchell's help, devotes an episode to the relationship between food deserts and the federal government's abandonment of Robison-Patman Act enforcement.
A message to friends and allies reflecting on David's visionary ideas, rigorous thinking, and lasting impact on movements for a just, sustainable, and democratic world.
At a conference inspired by her work, Stacy Mitchell delivers a talk about how abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act enforcement leads to food deserts.
The FTC has chosen to "abandon communities that depend on fair competition to maintain access to essential goods and services," says Stacy Mitchell
Stacy Mitchell explores the momentum for states to take on monopolies and pass antitrust reforms allowing attorneys general more power to rein in dominant corporations.
Stacy Mitchell went on Wisconsin Public Radio to explain why boycotts alone can't rein in Amazon — and why building citizen muscle helps defeat monopoly...