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Reviving a Dormant Law to Protect Rural Grocery Shelves

Reviving a Dormant Law to Protect Rural Grocery Shelves

Washington, Friday, 30 October 2026.
As rural food insecurity reaches nearly 16 percent, federal regulators are reviving a 90-year-old fair pricing law to curb preferential wholesale discounts that leave small-town grocery stores underserved.