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.
"Kroger/Albertsons would control $1 of every $4 American dollars spent on groceries. That’s as big as Walmart, [which] has done widespread damage to communities"
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.
On this episode of Building Local Power, Rakeen Mabud the Chief Economist at Groundwork Collaborative and Ron Knox, Senior Researcher and Writer at the Institute...
Stacy Mitchell's barnburner keynote address at the National Rural Grocery Summit detailed how monopolistic corporations are harming small businesses and farmers.
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs invited Stacy Mitchell to testify at its April 2021 hearing on the rural economy.
ILSR Legal Fellow Shaoul Sussman and co-author Hal Singer discredit the idea that all businesses behave like Amazon.
ILSR's Ron Knox explains how a regulatory system that is supposed to protect the food supply has instead led to giant slaughterhouses rampant with Covid-19.
Inspired by ILSR’s research, a growing number of cities are now taking legislative action to block dollar stores and support local grocery stores.
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.
Maps from eight cities show how numerous dollar stores have become in America and reveal a pattern between dollar stores and neighborhood income and race.
Marie Donahue explains how the growth in dollar stores harms healthy food options and local businesses on Minneapolis News Radio with host Roshini Rajkumar.