Ever wonder how Walmart, Amazon, Dollar chains, or other big retailers can set their retail prices lower than independents? We invite you to join a virtual briefing that will detail how mega retailers use their market power to extract unfair pricing, access, and promotions from suppliers, allowing them to undercut small and medium-sized competitors on retail prices. This illegal practice has been largely unpoliced; however, a groundswell movement is emerging to fight back. Small businesses can join together to urge federal regulators to revive the Robinson-Patman Act – a law passed in the 1930s to safeguard the ability of Main Street businesses to compete.

Join independent business associations to see how your business can stand up to big corporate power and level the playing field.

Attendees will learn:

• How large corporations use their market power to bully suppliers into special deals or access, which results in smaller competitors shouldering higher wholesale costs for the same truckload of goods  

• Why this is illegal, and why the lack of enforcement has led to unfair marketplaces

• How small businesses can take action

Host Organizations from the Small Business Rising Coalition

• American Booksellers Association

• American Independent Business Alliance

• American Specialty Toy Retailing Association

• Cambridge Local First 

• Independent Natural Food Retailers Association

• Independent Shopkeepers Assn

• Institute for Local Self-Reliance

• Local Business Institute

• Local First Arizona

• Local Return

• Louisville Independent Business Alliance

• Lowcountry Local First 

• National Community Pharmacists Assn

• National Grocers Assn

• Small Business Majority

• Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance