New analysis finds: Choice at the supermarket is a mirage (another hoax just like voting)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span><img alt="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2009/09/supermarket_.jpg" class="decoded" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2009/09/supermarket_.jpg" /></div>Photo Credit:www.artofmanliness.com<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'Despite shelves overflowing with colorful packages, increased consolidation of the grocery industry leaves shoppers with diminishing choice and higher grocery bills.</i> <br /><br />Today, Food & Water Watch released an in-depth analysis of the consolidation of the grocery industry and the range of impacts it has on the food chain. <a href="http://foodwaterwatch.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2c5698-%3eLCE180%3c7%401-GLCE17.6&RE=MC&RI=3718795&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=17774&Action=Follow+Link" target="_blank" title="http://foodwaterwatch.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2c5698-%3eLCE180%3c7%401-GLCE17.6&RE=MC&RI=3718795&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=17774&Action=Follow+Link"><i>Grocery Goliaths: How Food Monopolies Impact Consumers</i></a> examines 100 types of grocery products and found that the top four or fewer food companies control a substantial majority of the sales of each item. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Most often, the biggest food manufacturers offer multiple brands in each type of grocery, giving consumers the false impression that they are choosing between competing products when in fact all the sales can go to the same parent company. Over the past few years as food companies and supermarket chains have consolidated, this illusion of choice has coincided with increasingly expensive grocery bills.' </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.sott.net/article/269778-New-analysis-finds-Choice-at-the-supermarket-is-a-mirage">more... </a></span>

New analysis finds: Choice at the supermarket is a mirage (another hoax just like voting)

  Photo Credit:www.artofmanliness.com 'Despite shelves overflowing with colorful packages, increased consolidation of the grocery indus...

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