Claire Kelloway

Food Reporter for @OpenMarkets, writer of @foodandpower, proud @NonprofitUnion and @FSP_NWU member, she/her. Opinions are my own

[Sandeep Vaheesan @sandeepvaheesan]

.@clairekelloway and I made today's print edition!

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

Food deserts and high grocery prices spring from a consolidated food chain. This piece by Claire and Sandeep explains how we can enforce the laws to fight back.

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

"The entire U.S. food system is remarkably consolidated, exploitative and fragile."
In @nytopinion, @clairekelloway & @sandeepvaheesan explain what's gone wrong with our food system & the big changes needed to fix it. https://t.co/CS3g15M2sl

[Sandeep Vaheesan @sandeepvaheesan]

Thrilled to publish this piece with @clairekelloway on one major cause of high food prices--market concentration--and a solution to it--breaking up and regulating agribusinesses

[Claire Kelloway @clairekelloway]

In the @nytopinion today with @sandeepvaheesan making the case for genuine antitrust action in the food system, not just rhetoric. https://t.co/oCR2JUXHP9

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

Before there was “hipster antitrust,”there was Courtney Love in 1999.

[Claire Kelloway @clairekelloway]

Beyond proud to see my (former) union comrade fighting for his community against corporate power!! Get 'em Austin❤️‍🔥

[Austin Ahlman for Congress @ahlmanforne]

I'm Austin Ahlman. Nebraska is my home. This is our fight. You are my people.

Let’s take Nebraska back.

[Claire Kelloway @clairekelloway]

AG @keithellison and @LSPnow highlighting the dairy crisis driving small producers out of business and concentrating production on fewer, larger farms! 👏 https://t.co/p7U1mbBoC0

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Fossil fuel price shocks are redistribution shocks. The rich reap the windfall profits and the many are burdened by cost.

“We find that 50% of the profits in the oil and gas industry went to the top 1% richest Americans, whereas only 1% of those profits went to the bottom 50%.”

Great to see our research covered by @NPR!

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Disaster capitalism on steroids

Spiking fertilizer prices have brought back the specter of a new world food crisis.

Meanwhile the stocks of a handful of companies that control the fertilizer market are surging.

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

Here's what you should know about Sysco's plan to acquire Restaurant Depot:

[Claire Kelloway @clairekelloway]

Fewer wholesalers means higher prices for restaurants and higher prices for customers. It also means local farmers and food businesses have fewer market entry points, diminishing variety. Consolidation breeds more consolidation along the supply chain. https://t.co/yNomoBsR6Z

[Claire Kelloway @clairekelloway]

Sysco wants to be restaurants only option, and this deal brings them one step closer to that. Sure, Sysco delivers while RD is "cash and carry," but independent restaurants do compare prices between the two. Small restaurants will be even more cornered if this deal goes through.

[Jonathan Maze @jonathanmaze]

Notable deal in distribution this morning. Sysco is buying Restaurant Depot for $29 billion. Plans to expand RD more aggressively. It gives Sysco a huge entry into cash-and-carry and a large number of independent restaurant customers.

https://t.co/rgs7nSUyV7

[Richard Phillips @taxjusticewonk]

Reminder that the corporate tax cuts in Trump's tax bill are many times larger than no tax on tips, overtime, and senior deduction combined.

[Claire Kelloway @clairekelloway]

Fertilizer prices are rising as US and Israel’s war on Iran closes the critical Strait of Hormuz. In theory, nitrogen fertilizer can be made all over the world, so why is the industry so consolidated and vulnerable? https://t.co/V9dDvbcces

[Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell]

1. Tim Muris, who held top roles at the FTC in the 1970s-80s and 2000s, has teamed up with the Competitive Enterprise Institute on a new effort to discredit and bury the Robinson-Patman Act.

Muris has a record of inventing history to support his agenda. Here are a few examples.

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

In @foodandpower, Minnesota resident @clairekelloway observes community-based enterprises defending democracy while big corporations sit on the sidelines. https://t.co/dFb4T5RJC0

[Claire Kelloway @clairekelloway]

I live in Minneapolis. Witnessing the ways local businesses are boldly & creatively stepping up to meet community needs while large corporations offer mild statements or facilitate ICE reminds me why antimonopoly policy is central to a healthy democracy
https://t.co/p7RT8U6eFW

[Justin Stofferahn @justinformn]

While small businesses have been on the front lines of protecting their communities and demanding an end to the assault on Minnesotans basic rights, the largest corporations in the state sat silent for weeks and only now have offered this.

[Claire Kelloway @clairekelloway]

The latest in @foodandpower !

[Claire Kelloway @clairekelloway]

As consumers struggle with rising food prices, an unsealed antitrust suit involving Walmart & Pepsi and a report on Instacart’s algorithmic pricing demonstrate the ways large food corporations charge different prices to different retailers and consumers

https://t.co/0c7DcyUrPG