Private companies could sue under the act. There are associations of small grocers that could have sued and didn't.
I wonder if enterprise pricing by software vendors and negotiated pricing between payers and providers violate the act.
A federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
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Re: A federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
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Walmart has been making around 2% profits for a decade. Do you think that Walmart is less than 2% cheaper than small neighborhood grocery stores?
No, but only because it illegally coerces its suppliers into giving it sweetheart deals with lower wholesale prices, and nobody is enforcing the law to stop it from doing so. As the article explains, the reason for most of the price differential between large grocery store chains and small independent stores is that suppliers, forced to artificially reduce the prices they charge the large chains, have to recover that…
Walmart also pays workers so little that its employees receive over six billion dollars in public aid: https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...
A significant cost savings.
Re: A federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
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And all the while they had blue dog conservatives like Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson handicapping the proceedings.
I've wondered for a while now: why don't the Democrats get their own agents elected as pseudo-Republicans? The Republicans keep doing it... Lieberman, Nelson, Manchin, Sinema, et al.
Romney?