Food is provided by for profit companies, and buying food is mandatory for the sheer majority of people. Yet on the whole it's mostly a functioning market with

Food is provided by for profit companies, and buying food is mandatory for the sheer majority of people. Yet on the whole it's mostly a functioning market with mostly stable prices, apart from the recent spikes of trumpflation. The problem is lack of competition, both in pure number of companies due to consolidation, and also widespread collusion between what should be independent companies in the form of adopting the same business policies, software, and even surveillance databases (aka customer records).