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Committee lays over grocery price fairness bill after split testimony from grocers and suppliers
Summary
House File 2,149, a proposal to limit discriminatory pricing by dominant grocery retailers and increase transparency for independent grocers, drew strong testimony both for and against. The committee adopted a minor A1 correction and laid the bill over for further work.
Representatives Grama and Schultz presented House File 2,149, the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act, which sponsors described as a measure to protect independent and local grocers from discriminatory pricing by dominant national retailers.
Chris Jones, head of government relations at the National Grocers Association, said concentrated market power has allowed a few national chains to obtain preferential terms from suppliers that independent stores cannot access. “These companies have grown so large that…
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