“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...
From mobile markets to refrigerated food pick-up lockers, communities are exploring new approaches to making sure their residents have convenient, affordable access to healthy food.
On The Hustle, Kennedy Smith spells out why dollar stores are so problematic for our pocketbooks and our communities.
In a popular New York Times TikTok, Stacy Mitchell explained why we need to look past the headlines about inflation to understand why our grocery...
Communities are adopting innovative strategies to sustain their grocery stores or create new ones amidst the challenges posed by grocery sector consolidation.
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.…...
On the Columbus, OH local NPR affiliate, Stacy Mitchell explains the many ways chain dollar stores prey on communities.
ILSR investigates how dollar store chains are using predatory tactics to kill off grocery stores and other local businesses, harming rural and urban communities alike.
Over 75 cities and towns have defeated dollar store projects recently. Our guide can help you keep these chains out of your community.
Community leaders have good reason to be concerned about chain dollar stores. Here's an explanation of 17 ways dollar stores can hurt communities.
An Ohio pastor leads the charge against the dollar store invasion in his community.
On Pitchfork Economics, Stacy Mitchell argues that merging companies' assuaging regulators by promising to pass savings on to consumers is based on false promises.
Ron Knox joined Vox’s Today Explained podcast where he details the danger, harm, and effects of the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger.