Unsealed antitrust complaint reveals key factor in high food prices: corporate behemoths

Unsealed antitrust complaint reveals key factor in high food prices: corporate behemoths

according to the unsealed complaint, Walmart has used its immense power to demand promotional payments and allowances from Pepsi that have kept prices of soft drinks lower than other retailers. Walmart has also used Pepsi to help it monitor prices of soft drinks at competing retailers. (Photo by Getty Images)With high grocery prices continuing to squeeze Minnesotans, a newly unsealed antitrust complaint provides a path towards relief.  The compl…

Walmart and PepsiCo sued for price fixing - RetailDetail EU

Walmart and PepsiCo have been accused of collaborating in a price-fixing scheme in the United States that allegedly lasted nearly ten years. A lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, requests recognition as a class action.

Walmart, PepsiCo face price-fixing lawsuit

A pending class-action suit accuses the companies of working together to force grocery prices up for competitors

PepsiCo and Walmart face lawsuit over decade-long pricing claims

A new class action lawsuit has been filed against PepsiCo and Walmart, alleging a decade-long anti-competitive pricing scheme.

Walmart accused of getting secret deals from Pepsi

For years, PepsiCo handed Walmart massive secret discounts and promotions that no other retailer could touch, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it was straight-up illegal price discrimination that crushed small grocers. Details of these special pricing arrangements only became public this week after a previously sealed FTC complaint was finally made public. The case itself isn’t new: The FTC filed the complaint in January 2025 but volu…