A California appeals court upheld an ordinance enacted by the city of Turlock that prohibits the construction of supercenters. Wal-Mart had challenged the ordinance on...
By a wide margin, the Vermont Senate endorsed a bill that would require any proposed big-box store in the state to undergo an economic and...
Voters in Frisco, Colorado, resoundingly defeated a plan to develop a Home Depot superstore. … Read More
“The practice of competing to see who will kick-back the most taxpayer money to certain mega-businesses has gotten obscene,” declared Arizona State Representative Rick Murphy,...
A look at the results of several ballot questions on big-box retail. … Read More
Despite an expensive PR campaign, residents of Wayland, Massachusetts, rejected a developer’s plans to build a large "town center" retail development during a special town...
The vast multitudes of empty big-box stores, darkened malls, and vacant strip shopping centers that now litter the American landscape are being commandeered by a...
On a 4-2 vote, the City Council in Port Townsend, a community of about 8,500 people on the northwest coast of Washington state, approved an...
A new study has concluded that additional chain retail expansion on Cape Cod would undermine the region’s economy. … Read More
Grocery and big-box retailers in New York City will be required to contribute a set minimum to their employees’ health insurance, under an ordinance passed...
Independent remodeling businesses are being increasingly squeezed by Home Depot and Lowe’s. Having captured nearly half of all hardware and building supply sales nationally, the...
Two former television journalists are traveling cross country in search of Independent America and are making a documentary about what they find. … Read More
More than 40 percent of the towns surveyed for a new report by the London-based New Economics Foundation are so overrun by chain stores that...
At the request of independent movie theaters across the state, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is investigating claims that major movie theater chains use their...
Voters in San Luis Obispo, California, have defeated a 650,000-square-foot big-box shopping center. The Marketplace project, which included a Target, Lowe’s, Whole Foods, Old Navy,...