Statement on FTC Commissioner Bedoya’s Call for Fairness to be Main Goal of Antitrust Enforcement
Commissioner Bedoya made a powerful case that the guiding aim of antitrust should be fairness, including fairness for small businesses. This would represent a fundamental...
Boxed Out: How Big Retailers are Flexing Their Supply Chain Power to Kill Off Small Businesses
Powerful retailers are killing off small businesses by dominating supply chains. Our new report argues it’s time to revive the Robinson-Patman Act and restore antitrust...
On Pitchfork Economics: How Walmart Gutted Communities
Stacy Mitchell joins Pitchfork Economics to explain how policies drove the rise of Walmart and Amazon, and the urgency of the antitrust movement. … Read...
Report: Walmart’s Monopolization of Local Grocery Markets
In 43 metropolitan areas and 160 smaller markets, Walmart controls 50 percent or more of the local grocery market. No other corporation in history has...
California’s Proposed Net Neutrality Legislation Resuscitated
California is one of a long list of states that have in some way addressed the current lack of regulations regarding network neutrality. In addition...
Press Release: Walmart’s Climate Pollution Grows as It Scales Back Renewable Power
More than a decade after Walmart pledged to become an environmental leader, the company’s climate emissions continue to rise, according to data released today by...
After Three Decades of Neglect, Antitrust Is Back on the Democratic Platform
For the first time in 28 years, the Democratic Party platform calls for vigorous, stepped-up enforcement of our anti-monopoly laws. This remarkable shift in policy...
With 269 Stores Closing, Is this the Beginning of the End for Walmart?
All great retail empires eventually fall. A&P did. So did Montgomery Ward. But Walmart’s recent announcement that it would close 269 stores may not be...
After a Decade, Walmart Shows Little Progress on Sustainability
Contact: Rebecca Toews Rebecca@ILSR.org 612-808-0689 Ten years after pledging to become an environmental leader, Walmart still relies heavily on dirty energy and derives just 3%...
Walmart Spews a Huge Amount of Climate Pollution with Its Shipping, but Doesn’t Report Any of It
No company moves as much stuff across the world’s oceans as Walmart does, and the climate consequences are immense. Ferrying all those cheap TVs, T-shirts,...
Walmart Is Quietly Going on a Massive Building Spree
Having used its supercenters to capture one-quarter of U.S. grocery sales, Walmart is building a new wave of smaller stores that are poised to clean...
Walmart’s New Green Product Label Is the Most Misleading Yet
The Sustainability Leaders badge is straight out of Walmart’s 10-year-old greenwashing playbook. Once again, Walmart has engineered an appealing media story about itself as a...
