Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta research finds that lower-income communities face significantly higher food inflation — driven by greater retail market concentration and fewer competitors. From 2006–2020, poorer metro areas saw cumulative food inflation nearly 9 percentage points higher than wealthier ones. Read More

Census data confirms retail concentration is rising at both the national and local level — and it's hitting consumers' wallets. Increasing local market concentration explains up to one-third of the rise in retail profit margins across the U.S. Read More

USDA's interim investigation found that dominant retailers, food service distributors, and meatpackers use excessive fees, preferential pricing, and anticompetitive arrangements that squeeze out independent competitors across the meat supply chain.  Read More

Food deserts aren’t inevitable - they’re a policy choice. Stacy Mitchell traces their rise directly to the abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act enforcement in the 1980s, which let dominant retailers extract preferential pricing and drive independent grocers out of business. Read More

Groundbreaking empirical research from Duke Law finds that discriminatory wholesaler pricing drives independent retailers out of business, reduced competition, and ultimately harms consumers - directly refuting longstanding claim that RPA enforcement protects small businesses at consumers’ expense. Read More

A unanimous FTC report found the three dominant pharmacy benefit managers marked up lifesaving specialty generic drugs by hundreds to thousands of percent, generating over $7.3 billion in excess revenue while steering profitable prescriptions away from independent pharmacies. Read More

A conservative legal analysis argues that failing to enforce the Robinson-Patman Act is itself lawless — and likely harms consumers. The "waterbed effect" means discounts extracted by dominant buyers drive up prices for everyone else, especially in grocery markets.. Read More

Federal regulators are planning to use a rarely enforced law from the Great Depression to allege America’s largest alcohol distributor is unfairly pricing wine and spirits, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Read More

The unsealed FTC complaint against PepsiCo reveals that Walmart coerces the beverage company to actively raise wholesale prices on Walmart's competitors to maintain a "price gap" — turning a supplier into an enforcer of Walmart's market power at the expense of independent and regional grocers and consumers. Read More

Federal regulators said large grocery chains used their size and scale to keep shelves stocked during the pandemic, edging out smaller rivals when most stores struggled with product shortages and distribution bottlenecks. Read More

USDA report finds decades of consolidation in the seed industry have reduced farmer choice, enabled dominant firms to impose restrictive licensing terms, and weakened competition — recommending stronger IP oversight, fair competition enforcement, and reinvestment in public plant breeding infrastructure. Read More