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Amazon’s Acquisition of Whole Foods: Higher prices, fewer choices, more profits
Amazon has announced its acquisition of Whole Foods Market.
Too few companies already exert outsized influence over our food choices.
This is extreme consolidation of the food system in action, which will lead to higher prices, fewer choices for consumers, and bigger profits for billionaires like its owner, Jeff Bezos.
The top four grocery retailers already control 62 percent of food sales, raising prices and reducing choices for consumers.
This nearly $14 billion takeover would combine the dominant online retailing giant with one of the country’s ten biggest supermarket chains.
Consumers already face substantially reduced options for grocery shopping because of a wave of mega-mergers that have swept the supermarket and grocery manufacturing industry.
In recent years, more than 4,000 grocery stores were joined under two owners after the Albertsons-Safeway and Ahold-Delhaize mergers. The proposed Amazon-Whole Foods deal only further curtails consumer choices and raise prices.
The Federal Trade Commission must block this merger to protect consumers from the anti-competitive practices and higher prices of retail grocery monopolies.
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