How Did Amazon Conquer American Retail? $760 Million in Public Money Didn’t Hurt.
ILSR is featured in this story from Slate on Amazon and the vast amounts of public subsidies they received that funded their sprawling empire.… Read More
Amazon’s Growing Stranglehold (Episode 6)
In this episode, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews Stacy Mitchell (no relation) ILSR Co-Director and Senior Researcher for the Community-Scaled Economies initiative about their latest report: Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities. Mitchell details the main points from the recent report including the startling fact that nearly $1 of every $2 spent online are spent on Amazon.… Read More
Report: Amazon has ‘stranglehold’ on online retail market
ILSR is featured in this story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Amazon and the growth of their massive retail and economic empire.… Read More
Report: Amazon’s Monopoly
Amazon is destroying competition and market diversity, leaving us with fewer choices, less innovation, and diminished opportunities. … Read More
Press Release: Report Presents New Data on Amazon’s Impact on Competition, Jobs, Economy
Amazon, the rapidly expanding company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, is undermining competition and reshaping the U.S. economy in ways that curtail opportunities for small businesses, reduce jobs and wages, limit product diversity and the choices available to consumers, and harm the economic and fiscal underpinnings of communities, according to a new report released today by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR).
The report, Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities, presents new data; draws on interviews with dozens of manufacturers, retailers, labor experts, and others; and synthesizes a broad body of previous reporting and scholarship. It’s available at https://ilsr.org/amazon-stranglehold.… Read More
Mapping Amazon’s U.S. Logistics Network
Amazon’s been expanding its infrastructure at a breakneck pace. In order to better visualize the company’s expansion in the U.S., we’ve mapped it.… Read More
Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip on the Economy Is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities
Amazon has extended its tentacles across our economy. In this report, we pull back the curtain on the company, and find that it’s at the center of increasing inequality and diminishing opportunity, and that it’s concentrating power in ways that endanger competition, community life, and democracy. We also examine how public policy should address Amazon’s high costs.… Read More
Indie toy store owner finds her place among big box stores
The Minneapolis Star Tribune covered independent retailers and the benefits of their presence in community. For this story, John Ewoldt cites our research in order back up his reporting.… Read More
Small Retailers Face Threats at Every Turn
Commercial rents are skyrocketing across America, The Epoch Times cited our research on this trend.… Read More