Feeding Detroit
The Detroit People’s Food Cooperative represents a vital step towards fostering food sovereignty in a neighborhood historically affected by food apartheid. … Read More
Community Wins: How Do You Buy Groceries When There’s No Grocery Store? These Communities Figured It Out
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 food. Check out the latest in our Community Wins series. … Read More
On The Hustle, Kennedy Smith Explains the Bad Economics of Dollar Stores
Kennedy Smith was on The Hustle to spell out why dollar stores are so problematic for our pocketbooks and our communities.… Read More
Community Wins: In the Face of Consolidation, Communities are Opening Their Own Grocery Stores
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
On the Capitol Forum Podcast: Food Deserts, Rising Prices, and Antitrust
Inflation in the grocery sector is a cover story for monopoly power, Stacy Mitchell explains on the Capitol Forum podcast. The real cost of groceries can be traced to Walmart’s predatory tactics and failed antitrust enforcement. … Read More
WATCH: Fixing the Food Gap
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 community leaders are fighting back, and what federal leaders must do to cultivate fairness in our food system.
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A Food Oasis in North Tulsa
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16 Mar 2023 |
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A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasis… Read More
Report: The Dollar Store Invasion
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 and urban communities alike. We also document the rising tide of grassroots opposition to these stores and explain why federal policymakers need to act.… Read More
17 Problems: How Dollar Store Chains Hurt Communities
Community leaders have good reason to be concerned about chain dollar stores. … Read More