The FTC published a report confirming what many suspected about the role of profiteering in driving up food prices and aggravating shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreAntitrust enforcers dealt two major challenges to corporate power at different ends of the food supply chain over the past two weeks.
Read MoreChecking in on antitrust review of Kroger and Albertson’s proposed merger, one year later.
Read MoreAfter extracting hundreds of millions in dividends and navigating two bankruptcies, Lone Star private equity wants to sell Winn-Dixie to Aldi, further consolidating the Florida grocery market and putting thousands of jobs at risk.
Read MoreGrocers want to cash in on their troves of shopper data by selling more targeted ad spots online and in-store. But the largest grocers and food brands are poised to make the most money and sales off this growing trend.
Read MoreWalmart will source beef for its new case-ready beef plant in Kansas from Sustainable Beef, a rancher-owned packing plant in which Walmart has a minority stake. Founders say this is the future, other ranchers say its the end of competitive price discovery.
Read MoreVisa and Mastercard’s duopoly over credit networks has driven up swipe fees and raised costs for small grocers. A new bill wants to give stores more options for accepting credit cards.
Read MoreA new report by the HEAL Food Alliance and Food Chain Workers Alliance draws on a decade of organizing to identify how public food purchasing programs can better advance racial equity and worker organizing.
Read MoreA new economic study makes the case that concentrated market power helped corporations pull off pandemic price hikes and reap record profits.
Read MoreLegal challenges to Albertsons’s special dividend put a spotlight on the ways private equity extraction drives grocery consolidation.
Read MoreA merged Kroger/Albertsons empire could supercharge store closures, layoffs, price gouging, and supplier squeezing, further harming shoppers, workers, farmers, and independent grocers.
Read MoreEcolab sells an estimated 60% or more of all dishwashing and sanitizing chemicals that restaurants rely on, putting small restaurants in a bind.
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