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Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
(www.thebignewsletter.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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"Who cares if all the local independent stores got killed by giant chain stores? Chain stores are cheaper anyway!"
You would not believe the percentage of times someone says this whenever I bring up why chain stores suck. How's that Loblaws bread tasting these days?
It drives me insane that people never stopped to think about this. In my country we have arrived at a point where there are no independent grocery stores left, only a massive duopoly, with a third large international chain hanging onto like a few percent market share.
All 3 of them suck in different ways, prices are crazy high for the quality of food they offer, but there isn't really any choice anymore. And since only two chains share practically the entire market, their own store brands are choking the life out of our food industry, lmao.
Criminalize Walmart
-- 40 years ago
Let the market decide! Best system!
I'm certain the consequences will be swift and severe.....
Indeed. Judge Jesse Matthew Furman, who ordered this unsealed, and the members of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, who fought to have this unsealed in the first place, will no doubt be swiftly rounded up and deported to a concentration camp in El Salvador.
Lina Khan is so smart! The world would literally be so much better if everyone just made her queen of the world and had her decide everything. (This is not sarcasm. Someone that incredible and smart is a rarity and if she could rule the world, I'd gladly accept that.)
Not having her do something in which she had power to actually change market conditions is always a mistake, as we are seeing.
Lina Khan is a goddamned treasure.
Seriously. Someone like her should be kept in a palace with attendants and people to do everything for her while she just divides her time between leisure and economic policy that others simply implement. Like, I would happily be a servant for someone of her intellect to just assist her in any way. Not only does she just completely understand economics, but she speaks so clearly and eloquently about economic situations in ways to make the truth evident for someone lacking her exceptional abilities. I genuinely think that if she were queen of the world, about 99 percent of the worlds problems would dramatically decrease of just be gone within 5-10 years after her coronation. Many of the worlds problems are caused by not understanding externalities and markets and then not aggressively regulating those same markets if and only if needed.
