In a new report titled "Clone Town Britain," the London-based New Economics Foundation warns that the country’s town centers are rapidly being overrun by chain...
RKG concluded that Middlebury consumers are spending nearly $7 million elsewhere each year and recommended that the city stem the leakage by enticing Wal-Mart to...
"A new retail feudalism is emerging across Britain as a handful of brands take over our shopping. We are witnessing the slow death of small...
Last year when Home Depot announced that it would open in a former Ames department store building in Brattleboro, Vermont, a group of residents organized...
This report, a collaboration between the Institute of Local Self-Reliance and The Preservation Trust of Vermont, outlines why locally owned businesses matter and provides practical...
Wal-Mart and its ilk are muscling small businesses aside. But mom and pop are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore....
Mad in the USA by Stacy Mitchell Originally published on Alternet, September 8, 2003 More than 1,000 people attended a rally a few weeks ago...
Three times as much money stays in the local economy when you buy goods and services from locally owned businesses instead of large chain stores,...
Three times as much money stays in the local economy when you buy goods and services from locally owned businesses instead of large chain stores,...
Developers of a massive shopping center in Leominster, Massachusetts, claim the project will create 869 new jobs and boost the city’s property tax revenue by...
The town of Powell, Wyoming, is one of a growing number of places where residents are opening community-owned department stores. More than 800 shares of...
After a 1989 earthquake destroyed virtually all of its central business district, the city of Santa Cruz, California adopted the Downtown Recovery Plan (DRP), a...
Companies offering franchise business opportunities in Ontario will soon have to provide prospective franchisees with key information about their operations. A new franchise disclosure measure,...
The town of Mamaroneck, New York recently took steps to protect its character and environment from large-scale developments that abut, adjoin, or are adjacent to...
In this classic talk, delivered at the annual conference of the American Planning Association, Stacy Mitchell describes how, contrary to conventional wisdom, the decline of...