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Plus, big dollar store chains are able to leverage suppliers into providing special packaging at special prices. Other grocers can't get the same prices for non-perishable foods
“Just five giant retail chains now capture about half of all grocery sales and one company, Walmart, captures one out of every four dollars that Americans spend on groceries.”
“Efficiency” is a frequent justification for allowing corporations to consolidate vast swathes of the marketplace. But when it comes to food, huge grocery chains and ubiquitous dollar stores are limiting
Huge grocery chains and ubiquitous dollar stores are limiting some rural and urban communities’ access to healthy food at the same time they bankrupt the farmers who produce it, members of a virtual panel said late last month
Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger already control a huge amount of the nation’s grocery business.The post Dollar stores, giant grocery chains push healthy food out of reach for many, activists say