FTC Chair Khan Pushes for Inquiry Into Elevated Grocery Prices

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is pushing for an inquiry into the sustained uptick in grocery prices that started during the Covid-19 pandemic and has become a central campaign issue in the presidential election.

A study of grocery prices would “shed light” on why prices and profits at grocery chains “remain so high even as costs appear to have come down,” Khan said in prepared remarks Thursday during a virtual public meeting hosted by the FTC and Department of Justice.

“The FTC has been focused on ensuring that no American faces inflated prices due to illegal business practices,” she ...