Visa 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.
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A 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.
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A new economic study makes the case that concentrated market power helped corporations pull off pandemic price hikes and reap record profits.
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Legal challenges to Albertsons’s special dividend put a spotlight on the ways private equity extraction drives grocery consolidation.
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A merged Kroger/Albertsons empire could supercharge store closures, layoffs, price gouging, and supplier squeezing, further harming shoppers, workers, farmers, and independent grocers.
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Ecolab 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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While Whole Foods talks a big game about supporting local businesses and their workers, both groups have been shunted as the chain seeks to compete with dominant retailers.
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Claire Kelloway wrote about the role of food corporations’ market power in rising prices (and rising profit margins) for Time magazine.
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No one seems to know how to offer quick, profitable grocery delivery without gouging grocers, exploiting workers, or abandoning brick-and-mortar stores altogether.
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A trade association for independent grocers calls on Congress to revise and enforce a law banning price discrimination that antitrust enforcers have put on the shelf.
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Amazon recently invited a select group of shoppers to tour its first Amazon Fresh grocery store, in Woodland Hills, California. While the new store has made headlines for its voice-powered Alexa kiosks and computerized “Dash Carts” that scan groceries as you shop, Amazon Fresh represents far more than a high-tech grocery store. The venture launches Amazon’s experiment in taking on more traditional grocery retailers, in an effort to expand its retail dominance. Amazon says that it will publicly open the store “in the coming weeks.”
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