>Consumers already have a hard time having any lever against rising grocery costs. Consolidation earlier on in the supply chain is not helping. Who in the groc

>Consumers already have a hard time having any lever against rising grocery costs. Consolidation earlier on in the supply chain is not helping. Who in the grocery supply chain is earning huge profit margins? As far as I understand, consumers have long benefited from myriad subsidies provided to farmers, too low fossil fuel prices that do not price in externalities, too low water prices that deplete aquifers quicker than they can recharge, and extremely cheap labor due to cheaper labor in less developed countries and government looking the other way on farms that hire illegal immigrants. If anything, the mechanization of farms is the only force pushing food prices lower. Before that, it was the advent of the Haber-Bosch process which drastically increased yields.