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Big Potato under fire: how the top 4 suppliers raised prices in suspicious lockstep
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Big Potato under fire: how the top 4 suppliers raised prices in suspicious lockstep

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 03, 2025
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When Washington D.C. bar owner Josh Saltzman had the audacity to question four major potato suppliers' perfectly synchronized $0.12 price hike by Tweeting "Totally not collusion or anything, right?" he revealed himself as yet another victim of dangerous consumer-rights propaganda. What's next, Mr. Saltzman …

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