Main Street Competition Coalition

A coalition of Main Street business groups advocating for the enforcement and reform of US antitrust laws that protect competition and benefit consumers.

[Iowa Corn @iowa_corn]

ICGA, @OhioCornWheat & @TexasCorn sent a joint letter to @POTUS @realDonaldTrump urging support and advance investigation into anticompetitive conduct in the fertilizer market.

Read more here ➡️https://t.co/BabMtFzbZH

@SecRollins @AGToddBlanche @AFergusonFTC

[Main Street Competition Coalition @MainStCompetes]

5/ Let's use real enforcement instead of enlisting government to do work a fair private market can do on its own. Government's job is referee, not the star player.

[Main Street Competition Coalition @MainStCompetes]

1/ In @TheAtlantic, Rogé Karma covers a new @KitchenTblProj report. It's right that high grocery prices are a competition problem, but wrong solution to insinuate government into grocery wholesaling. We already have laws on books to solve the problem: 🧵 https://t.co/7jB9fMBcDO

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4/ What tough enforcement brings: on a level playing field, more grocers can compete for shoppers and for products. Big food suppliers face more competition, and farmers gain more buyers for what they grow. Over time, that competition would even help ranchers rebuild their herds.

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9/ Before Latham tried to compete using an expired patent, it was Bayer’s “partner.” Bayer’s own motion to dismiss shows how fast that can change. A partner becomes a rival put at an impossible disadvantage.

[Main Street Competition Coalition @MainStCompetes]

1/ The Latham v. Bayer case, and this passage from Bayer’s motion to dismiss, sum up the challenges Main Street businesses and farmers face. 🧵

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8/ Pharmacists and healthcare providers know this one too well. The insurer that holds their patient and reimbursement data is also their competitor, through its own pharmacies and practices.

[Main Street Competition Coalition @MainStCompetes]

State AGs continue to make waves in healthcare antitrust enforcement. Main Street appreciates help from bipartisan law enforcers like @PAAttorneyGen @MIAttyGen @AGJamesUthmeier @AGTimGriffin @AGDanRayfield @AGLizMurrill and more working hard to restore pharmacy competition

[PA Attorney General Dave Sunday @PAAttorneyGen]

Attorney General Dave Sunday announced a lawsuit against several pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) regarding collusion to manipulate insulin price markets, increasing out-of-pocket costs for Pennsylvanians:

https://t.co/Y44g7SoKVL

[Main Street Competition Coalition @MainStCompetes]

For too long, two academics' views have outweighed the will of Congress in antitrust, letting vertical integration and market power shape the economy against Main Street and farmers. Good for @MeadorFTC for endorsing an approach that judges the monopolists’ whole playbook.

[Mark Meador @MeadorFTC]

https://t.co/7fuz4qkSov

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A powerful buyer got a good deal then kept its supplier from giving competitors access to the same discounts. The @FTC stopped the abuse after challenging the conduct under the Robinson-Patman Act. A clear warning to dominant retailers like @Walmart @amazon

[FTC @FTC]

FTC secures fair pricing protections by taking action against major wholesale t-shirt distributors. FTC action signals continued Robinson-Patman Act enforcement to protect consumers, small businesses: https://t.co/d3PzP5yWo4

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6/6
America is stronger when Main Street is strong. Restoring competition means addressing the buyer power that increasingly tilts markets against independent businesses.

https://t.co/fQ62f2P3Nv

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1/6
The @FTC resolved its @SGWineSpirits Robinson-Patman Act case, the first price discrimination enforcement action in nearly a quarter century.

Where should RPA enforcement go from here? 🧵

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Buyer power isn’t just a problem for independent retailers. Its abuse can:
• Raise rivals’ costs
• Increase concentration
• Reduce consumer choice
• Harm suppliers and farmers
• Contribute to higher prices in concentrated markets