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.