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Community Wins: In the Face of Consolidation, Communities are Opening Their Own Grocery Stores

Community Wins: In the Face of Consolidation, Communities are Opening Their Own Grocery Stores

Kennedy Smith

August 2, 2023

Communities are adopting innovative strategies to sustain their grocery stores or create new ones amidst the challenges posed by grocery sector consolidation. Some local governments are even creating a public option by operating grocery stores themselves. Here's how these places are ensuring access to fresh, healthy food.READ MORE


A Food Oasis in North Tulsa

A Food Oasis in North Tulsa

Luke Gannon

March 16, 2023

A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasisREAD MORE


In The Forge: We Need a Popular Front to Overthrow Corporate Rule. Small Businesses Are Key.

In The Forge: We Need a Popular Front to Overthrow Corporate Rule. Small Businesses Are Key.

Stacy Mitchell

March 24, 2022

In The Forge Stacy Mitchell argues that we are in unprecedented moment to organize a broad popular front of small businesses and working people to change the course of corporate concentration.READ MORE


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Why We Can’t Shop Our Way to a Better Economy: Stacy Mitchell’s TEDx Talk

Why We Can't Shop Our Way to a Better Economy: Stacy Mitchell's TEDx Talk

Stacy Mitchell

December 1, 2012

In this TEDx talk, Stacy Mitchell makes the case for a new phase in the local economy movement.READ MORE