This is a Fireside Chat at Expo East’s Sustainability Summit with Food Tank’s Danielle Nierenberg at 2:55 at the Philadelphia Convention Center. Information about Expo East, the Natural Products Trade Show, is here.
by Marion Nestle
Dec
12
2013
Food & Water Watch: Grocery Goliaths
Food and Water Watch has some excellent new resources on supermarket shopping:
- Take the quiz on who owns what and how much (really? I didn’t know that).
- Take a look at the terrific graphics (here’s an example):
- Get the report: Grocery Goliaths: How Food Monopolies Impact Consumers.
Food & Water Watch found that the top companies controlled an average of 63.3 percent of the sales of 100 types of groceries (known as categories in industry jargon). In a third (32) of the grocery categories, four or fewer companies controlled at least 75 percent of the sales.
I will never think of “choice” the same way again.