On the Capitol Forum podcast, Stacy Mitchell explains that the real cost of groceries can be traced to Walmart's predatory tactics and failed antitrust enforcement.
Stacy Mitchell explains how big retailers exploit their financial control over suppliers, threatening independent grocers and increasing prices. Enforcing the Robinson Patman Act could help.
This virtual event examined ways dominant retailers exert their power, how communities are fighting back, and how leaders can restore fairness in our food system.…...
Dollar stores are not merely byproducts of economic distress; they are a cause of it. Through predatory tactics, chain dollar stores are killing off grocery...
Commissioner Bedoya made a case that the guiding aim of antitrust should be fairness, including fairness for small businesses, a fundamental shift for the agency.
Powerful retailers are dominating supply chains. Our report argues it’s time to revive the Robinson-Patman Act to restore antitrust enforcement against predatory buying.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya gave keynotes at the forum, which featured people on the frontlines fighting for antimonopoly reform.
Stacy Mitchell's barnburner keynote address at the National Rural Grocery Summit detailed how monopolistic corporations are harming small businesses and farmers.
In 203 markets, Walmart controls 50% or more of the grocery market. No other corporation has ever amassed this much control over the food system.
Big-Box Swindle was named one of the top ten business books of the year by Booklist and described by Bill McKibben as “the ultimate account...
A growing number of communities are fighting back against the rising power of large retail stores like Wal-Mart. But real change won’t come until we...
As the company’s misdeeds pile up in the public consciousness, it can be tempting to define the problem of Wal-Mart as one of a bad...
Published in 2000, The Hometown Advantage examines the impacts of chain retailers and provides a guide to reviving your community’s local economy. … Read More