Family Dollar announced it plans to close 1,000 stores by the end of 2025. Communities have an opportunity to chart a different path.
Toledo’s Dorr Street is emblematic of what happened in cities across the country. Community leaders are charting a path for rebirth.
Hall-Harper is a leader on blocking predatory dollar stores and rebuilding locally owned businesses.
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...
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...
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...
From mobile markets to refrigerated food pick-up lockers, communities are exploring innovative new approaches to making sure their residents have convenient, affordable access to healthy...
Kennedy Smith was on The Hustle to spell out why dollar stores are so problematic for our pocketbooks and our communities.… Read More
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...
As big retailers exploit their financial control over suppliers, independent grocers face extinction, creating food deserts and driving up prices for everyone. In the New...
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...
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...
On the local NPR affiliate, Stacy explains how dollar stores prey on communities. … Read More
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...