The Hometown Advantage Bulletin
The Hometown Advantage Bulletin is a free monthly email newsletter reporting on efforts nationwide to stop chain store proliferation and support locally owned, independent retail businesses. Learn about land use policies and other tools that can protect the character and vitality of your hometown. Find out how other communities are bucking the "big box" retail trend and encouraging small-scale, homegrown businesses - and why this approach is proving far more beneficial to the local economy. Plus, news on e-commerce, independent business alliances, development subsidies, antitrust, and all the latest resources.
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Featured Resources
Big-Box & Wal-Mart Impacts
Our extensive collection of resources — fact sheets, studies, graphs and more — on the impact of big-box retailers.
Rebuilding Local Business
Strategies to strengthen independent businesses — from buy-local campaigns to innovative financing initiatives.
"A devastating critique of the impact of big retailers on American life."
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A New Deal for Local Economies — Speech by Stacy Mitchell
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