Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher with the New Rules Project (www.newrules.org) and author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses (Beacon, 2006). She works for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Send your examples of local-washing to her at [email protected]. HSBC, one of the biggest banks on […]

