UNFI’s Revenue Jumps 20% – Fuels Gouging Concerns
United Natural Foods, Inc. — better known as UNFI — is one of the silent powerhouses behind many of the products stacked on supermarket shelves. The company supplies everything from organic produce to household staples to grocery giant hubs and independent retailers alike. If you’ve ever filled a cart at Whole Foods or a co-op in the Midwest, odds are, UNFI’s trucks made that possible.
In 2020, amid pandemic disruptions, UNFI reported whopping revenues of $26.55 billion. That was a year of strained supply chains, rising logistics costs, and consumer uncertainty, and it still represented a 19% increase over 2019.
Performance Food Group Revenues TRIPLE
In 2020, PFG reported revenues of $25.1 billion — already a significant footprint.
By 2024, that number had exploded to $62.3 billion. There’s the $37 BIL joyride.
That’s not a recovery. That’s TRIPLE – an astonishing 148% increase in just four years.
It gets even stickier – PFG and US FOODS are in merger talks. In mid-September 2025, PFG announced that it agreed to share confidential financial information with US Foods under a “clean team” process — a common early step in merger talks.
Trust us – there ain’t nothin’ “clean” about any of this.
US Foods Revenues Surge 66% — While Consumers Pay the Price
In 2020, US Foods reported revenues of $22.8 billion — down from $25.94 billion in 2019 due to pandemic disruptions. Fair enough. But what followed is what should raise every consumer’s eyebrow.
By 2025, just five years later, the company’s annual revenues skyrocketed to $37.877 billion.
That’s not a rebound — that’s a whopping 66% increase. Let that sink in.
While small restaurants shuttered, supply chains “tightened,” and consumers were told price hikes were due to “inflation” and “diesel costs,” US Foods quietly stacked over $15 billion in new annual revenue.
Their primary phone number is (847) 720-8000. Their CEO is David Flitman.
Exposed: Are Food Distributors Jacking America?
2025 needs to be the year someone finally exposes the big distributors in the American grocery industry for raising grocery prices beyond a ridiculous level.
Here at SpokenFood, we’re calling it for what we (and most Americans) believe it is: Price Gouging. We’ve left messages for some of the largest distributors in the U.S. food supply chain and we asked hard questions. Senior Food Analyst, Miles Kincaid, shows why the food industry supply chain’s unspoken policies may very well be taking money from you at the grocery counter–money that rightfully belongs to you and no one else.
We’re not seeking answers this time–we’re getting them.
SYSCO FOODS: THE PROFITS TELL THE STORY
Sysco Foods, one of America’s largest food suppliers, reported $55.3 billion in revenue for 2024, up from $36.7 billion in 2020. That’s roughly a 50% jump in just five years.
Now look at profit: in 2020, Sysco’s gross profit was $1.9 billion. By 2025, it had soared to $10.8 billion.
That’s a 468% increase.
Revenue: $36.7B (2020) → $55.3B (2024) — 50% increase
Gross profit: $1.9B (2020) → $10.8B (2025) — 468% increase
And yet, the cost of food keeps rising. Meanwhile, diesel prices have fallen since their 2022 peak. This makes NO sense.
Yeah… they’re not price-gouging. Sure.
The Best Smokeless Lox Salmon
When it comes to weekend mornings, nothing beats freshly smoked lox. Imagine a toasted bagel, loaded with lox salmon, freshly sliced tomato, thinly shaved red onion, capers and a healthy shmear of cream cheese, dotted with a handful of briny capers. Flavor, crunch, richness and smoky protein, all stacked up like a winning breakfast prize, and you hold the ticket.
Most lox you’ll find has been salt cured for hours, then cold-smoked (under 90 degrees) for the same time or longer. It’s the standard recipe result you’ll get in any reputable deli or fish shop: Think Russ & Daughters in New York City or Pike’s Place Market in Seattle and you’ve hit the pinnacle of the smoked fishes art in America. This recipe is so easy, you can do it overnight or in a couple hours in your kitchen, sans smoker.
This is Why It’s Called WALLETGATE
For eighteen straight days, SpokenFood hammered the Federal Trade Commission with evidence of rampant grocery price gouging.
We showed them graphs, data, receipts and hard questions that deserved hard answers. You’ve been paying 30-40% more for your groceries ever since “the new normal” after Covid. Gas prices went down, food costs have never stopped surging upward.
Four separate messages went into the FTC’s Office of Public Affairs inbox. Four separate times, we asked the same thing: Why are American families being gutted at the checkout line while food distributors post record profits?
High Fructose Corn Syrup Is America’s #1 Nutrition and Health SCOURGE
Is it any wonder why Americans are ballooning (and growing unhealthier by the year)? HFCS is in everything! Kudos to Tyson Foods, though, for recently declaring their removal of high fructose corn syrup from their products, beginning in 2026.
How many enormous people do you see when you’re out and about every day? Answer: you can’t swing a bag of nutritious apples and NOT hit somebody who sports a BMI of 40 or more.
Food Plant Fires Are Suspect
In all of 2021, there were approximately 10 plant fires or destructive “incidents.” In 2022, that number jumped to 87. EIGHTY-SEVEN!
That’s a grand total of 97 food manufacturing facilities destroyed by fire in 2021-2022 alone.
Were the majority of these plants–a full 85-90%–destroyed intentionally?
I don’t have to don my Nancy Drew hat to riddle that one. Every year, there are roughly six to 12 food manufacturing “destruction events” that take place. It’s just the nature of the steel beast in manufacturing. Think about it: High voltage electricity, concentrated tanks of ammonia for cooling/freezing, gas lines everywhere, fork trucks that run on propane and for the ones that run on batteries, those bad boys weigh upwards of 1/2 ton apiece and when they explode, you will pray to your personal savior to spare you.
Danger abounds, which is why OSHA and plant safety managers have a job.
BigFood: Who’s Talking?!
As the old story goes in news circles, when you hear something once, you dismiss it. Hear it twice, you keep your ear to the ground. Three times and you’re digging with a shovel.
BigFood wants this kept on the down-low and just like that secret organization you hear so often about in movies, the food supply chain industry has sent a quiet, clandestine warning to everyone involved: “Keep your (insert expletive here) mouth shut.”
What we’ve proven in the past month, speaking to dozens of sources in BigFood, is that nearly everyone is price-gouging and those who might not be know who is doing it.
…and no one is opening a mouth about it.
Think the Mafia has anything on BigFood? Read on.