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Canada’s Campus Bookstores Fight Chain Takeover

In January, Canada’s university and college bookstores filed a complaint with federal competition officials over attempts by Indigo, the country’s largest book chain, to assume control of campus...

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Saving Banff

Originally published in Calgary Herald Banff, like many communities in western Canada, is facing a growing influx of multinational chains [“Banff fears ‘corporate branding’ of resort”]. Stores like The...

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Our Take: Responding to Reich on Wal-Mart

Our response to the destructive force of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart ought to involve much more than adopting regulations that “soften the blows” and “slow the pace of change,” as Robert Reich,...

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Chains Are Taking Over Britain, Survey Finds

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 they have lost their local identity and become little more...

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Wal-Mart Pushing India to Lift Ban on Global Chain Stores

Global chains are pushing India to lift restrictions that prevent them from opening stores in the country. The move could lead to sweeping changes in a country where more than 95 percent of the retail...

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Will Wal-Mart Eat Britain?

The New Economics Foundation’s Alternative Mansion House Speech, given by Stacy Mitchell in May 2005. Download the PDF Thank you. It’s wonderful to be here with you tonight, and quite an honor to be...

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Study Finds Chains Could Harm Cape Cod Economy

A study commissioned by the Massachusetts-based Smart Planning & Growth Coalition has concluded that additional chain retail expansion on Cape Cod would undermine the region’s economy. The study,...

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Exposing the Big-Box Swindle

The following interview appeared in Bookselling This Week. BTW: In Big Box Swindle, you note that, “to a scandalous degree,” big box retailers are a product of public policy and that government policy...

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Market Share: Independent vs. Chain Retailers (Graphs)

These graphs illustrate the shifting market share of chain and independent retailers between 1982 and 2007, as well as the growing share of spending captured by Walmart.… Read More

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To Beat Retail Monopolies, We Need to Shed Our Consumer Identity

A growing number of communities are fighting back against the rising power of large retail stores like Wal-Mart. But real change won't come until we stop thinking of ourselves as consumers and start...

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