Stacy Mitchell talks to WBUR's 1A about the economic and policy forces creating a challenging environment for independent businesses.
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.
Stacy Mitchell joins Pitchfork Economics to explain how policies drove the rise of Walmart and Amazon, and the urgency of the antitrust movement.
Boston is the latest city to introduce a formula business proposal, which would make national chains a conditional use throughout the city.
Jersey City has taken steps to check the cycle of chain store dominance. They've instead built a model that allows for opportunity for local entrepreneurs.
ILSR's annual Independent Business Survey gathers data from thousands of locally owned, independent businesses across the country.
Cities are changing to become increasingly inhospitable to locally owned businesses. In this video, Olivia LaVecchia discusses six policy strategies for cities.
More than a decade after Walmart pledged to become an environmental leader, the company’s climate emissions continue to rise, according to data released today by...
At a recent New York City Council hearing, ILSR submitted testimony examining the importance of locally owned businesses to the City.
In the first episode of our new podcast series, “Building Local Power,” Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews Olivia LaVecchia,...
Stacy Mitchell talked to the Strong Towns podcast about the origins of big-box stores and the way they continue to undercut the American middle class.
We look at both the bad and the good fallout from Walmart’s closing of 269 stores.
Contact: Rebecca Toews [email protected] 612-808-0689 Ten years after pledging to become an environmental leader, Walmart still relies heavily on dirty energy and derives just 3%...
Under what has become known as the “dark store” method, big-box retailers are declaring their busy stores to be functionally obsolescent and therefore nearly worthless...
No company moves as much stuff across the world’s oceans as Walmart does, and the climate consequences are immense. Ferrying all those cheap TVs, T-shirts,...