Brands pay stores for shelf space. How would you stop that in practice?

phantasmish 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Impossible to solve I’m sure. Probably lower priority than stopping them from putting lead in bread and selling cocaine snake-oil elixirs, or forcing them to list basic nutritional information on food packaging. Alas, we lack the tools to make businesses do or not do things.

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layer8 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

By making it illegal? Brands can still compete on price and quality.

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al_borland 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Grocery stores are a low margin business. If you make selling shelf space illegal, they lose that revenue and will have to raise food prices to stay in business. This isn’t a good outcome. I also question if the shelves would even changes much. They will probably prioritize their high margin products, which doesn’t sound any better.

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phantasmish 2 days ago | parent [-]

Where does the money to pay for shelf space come from if not the money we pay for food?

	▲	al_borland 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		In theory, sure. In practice, the food makers aren’t going to lower their prices to the stores, they will just stop paying the shelf fees.

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mulmen 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What’s the legal way to arrange things on a shelf?