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Category: Big-Box Swindle
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Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, where she directs initiatives on community banking and independent retail. She is the author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses and produces a popular monthly bulletin called the Hometown Advantage. This post originally appeared at Huffington Post. I recently gave a TEDx…
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The first Wal-Mart store opened fifty years ago this month. What has its dominance meant to American workers?
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Big corporations hide their assets off-shore, while small businesses and individuals are left to pick up the slack.
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With Black Friday on the horizon (just past a plate of roast veggies and turkey), the Etsy blog interviewed Stacy Mitchell, author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses about shopping local and her work at the New Rules Project. Why should people shop local this holiday season? One…
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The author of Big-Box Swindle looks at the environmental arguments in favor of small, locally-owned neighborhood shops.
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Immersed as we are these days in discussions of carbon emissions and carbon offsets, food miles and feedback loops, Earth Day has come to feel more and more outmoded, a throwback to an earlier era before melting ice caps and the prospect of the end of life as we know it made the environment no…
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The Broadside took a couple of days off for turkey, stuffing, and family fun. We’re back today with a reminder of why we shouldn’t spend our holiday shopping dollars without thinking about the impact of our choices. by Stacy Mitchell Whether to patronize a chain or a locally owned business is not top of mind…
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