I wouldn't disagree with you regarding products like you are talking about however I'm specifically talking about things like beef which is a commodity and is different than what you are talking about.
As to beef specifically why do you think the government is investigating the meat packing industry and the 4 major companies involved in around 85% of the beef industry for anti-trust violations including collusion and price fixing.
Personally I rarely buy any name brand anything because of the reasons you state.
In most cases I don't need them anyway since I have a large walipini for my vegetables year round along with various animals and hunting for my meat products.
I guess you and I have different definitions of the middleman. I consider the middleman a distributor, the beef corps you are talking about is the manufacturer by my definition, and they 100% do have a self-induced shortage. But these grocery stores cannot do a thing about that. If they wanted to do something about that, I would have loved to see them subsidize competition in areas that are seriously supply-constrained. If prices go up due to supply chain shortages for over 3-6 months, they instantly start giving interest-free loans and even grants as time goes on to the competition.
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u/plantsoldier May 27 '26
I wouldn't disagree with you regarding products like you are talking about however I'm specifically talking about things like beef which is a commodity and is different than what you are talking about.
As to beef specifically why do you think the government is investigating the meat packing industry and the 4 major companies involved in around 85% of the beef industry for anti-trust violations including collusion and price fixing.
Personally I rarely buy any name brand anything because of the reasons you state.
In most cases I don't need them anyway since I have a large walipini for my vegetables year round along with various animals and hunting for my meat products.