Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries, an expert brief by Food Systems manager Claire Kelloway, shares how policymakers at all levels of government can hold food corporations to account and foster fair grocery markets that provide affordable and readily available food for everyone.

Claire Kelloway, food program manager at the Open Markets Institute, highlights how Walmart’s dominance has reshaped grocery competition, making it harder for independent grocers to survive. She argues that stronger enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act is essential to level the playing field, pointing to the FTC’s ongoing case against Southern Glazer’s as a sign of progress.

Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway contributes to the debate that rural economic decline is not inevitable but the result of policy failures—particularly weakened antitrust enforcement—and calls for state-level action to restore competition through right-to-repair laws, fair grocery pricing, and stronger healthcare merger reviews.

In this issue, we celebrate OMI’s own Claire Kelloway for receiving a James Beard Award for her reporting and examine how a case against two pharmacy benefit managers in Michigan could have implications for the industry nationwide.

The Open Markets Institute proudly celebrates Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway who was awarded a James Beard Foundation Media Award for her incisive reporting for the Food & Environment Reporting Network in their “Farm Bill Fight” series published in Mother Jones.

In this issue, we celebrate OMI’s own Claire Kelloway for being named a finalist for a James Beard Award, explore how the Trump administration is helping Elon Musk’s Starlink to cement a monopoly on space, and welcome recent speeches by the DOJ’s Gail Slater and the FTC’s Mark Meador.

The Open Markets Institute proudly celebrates Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway for being named a finalist in the 2025 James Beard Media Awards.  

In this issue, we look at the new antimonopoly caucus in the House, and examine how monopoly and Wall Street power keeps Amtrak off track, denying better train service to Americans across the country.

Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway explores how the recent rise in egg prices is driven not just by factors like bird flu, but also by corporate greedflation and the price of conventional eggs is affected due to both the bird flu and potential corporate collusion manipulating the market.

Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway was quoted emphasizing that generic pesticide makers should be allowed to compete, as they offer farmers more affordable options and help lower costs in a concentrated market.