For eighteen straight days, SpokenFood hammered the Federal Trade Commission with evidence of rampant grocery price gouging.
We showed them graphs, data, receipts and asked easy questions that deserve honest answers. You’ve been paying 30-40% more for your groceries ever since “the new normal” after Covid. Gas prices went down, yet food costs have never stopped surging upward. And all we do is complain. That’s why this particular buck stops with SpokenFood.com.
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?
Four times, we got the same reply: Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Bupkus.
Question: Doesn’t that PISS YOU OFF? Below are contacts for you.
The FTC is THE watchdog agency supposedly tasked with protecting you. There’s been nothing from the fat bureaucrats who pound podiums and rail on about “accountability,” while they pocket millions in BigFood lobby dollars, nothing but silence — while BigFood and your Congress officials laugh all the way to the bank, meanwhile jacking up prices and shoving high fructose corn syrup down your throat like it’s 1976.
Make no mistake: silence is an answer. The FTC had its chance to stand up for consumers, to even acknowledge that a question was asked. Instead, they’ve chosen to stonewall. And when regulators look away, it’s not incompetence — it’s complicity. This is exactly why we’re calling it a pricing conspiracy…why we named it WalletGate.
The ONLY way this is going to work is by applying more pressure…pressure from consumers. That means you.
The FTC may want to hide behind silence, but American families can’t afford silence at the grocery store. Every extra dollar at checkout is a dollar stolen from your pocket, funneled into corporate coffers and executive bonuses. If regulators won’t answer us, maybe they’ll answer you.
The power in numbers, baby.
FTC Office of Public Affairs: [email protected] | 202-326-2180
FTC Chair Lina M. Khan’s Office: 202-326-2200 | [email protected] (staff routed)
FTC Consumer Response Center: 1-877-382-4357
House Energy & Commerce Committee (Consumer Protection Subcommittee): [email protected] | 202-225-2927
Senate Judiciary Committee (Antitrust Subcommittee): 202-224-5225
PepsiCo Media Relations: [email protected]
Coca-Cola Media Center: [email protected]
Keurig Dr Pepper Media Inquiries: [email protected]
Tell them you’re tired of the excuses. Tired of the silence. Tired of feeding your family food that costs more, delivers less, and risks your health.
Because if they won’t answer SpokenFood, when millions of Americans start pounding on the door…they’ll have to answer.
The silence stops when you speak up.
– Sal Notaro
P.S. Make that FIVE letters. We just forwarded this entire story to the FTC, complete with ART.