Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative

Olean, USA

Olean Wholesale Grocery is a grocery wholesaler that provides a variety of food products to independent retailers, focusing on meeting the needs of the local community and supporting independent business growth.

CCI Score

44.81

June 18

Latest Event

Antitrust Litigation Against Price-Fixing Practices

Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, Inc. is actively involved in an antitrust case against Bumble Bee Foods LLC, challenging alleged price-fixing practices in the packaged seafood market. The litigation, supported by an amicus brief from the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws dated September 10, 2021, aims to protect consumer interests and promote fair competition, which in turn supports local businesses and independent retailers.

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Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative is currently rated as a Dissenter.

+25 to +44 CCI Score

These companies are vocal in their opposition to authoritarian regimes. They publicly criticize oppressive policies and engage in advocacy efforts to promote accountability and transparency, even if their actions aren’t as extensive as those of Moral Leaders.

Latest Events

SEP

10

2021

Antitrust Litigation Against Price-Fixing Practices
51.80

Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, Inc. is actively involved in an antitrust case against Bumble Bee Foods LLC, challenging alleged price-fixing practices in the packaged seafood market. The litigation, supported by an amicus brief from the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws dated September 10, 2021, aims to protect consumer interests and promote fair competition, which in turn supports local businesses and independent retailers.
+80

Business Practices and Ethical Responsibility

June 18

The cooperative’s decision to engage in antitrust litigation demonstrates a commitment to ethical business practices by challenging collusive pricing that harms consumers and independent retailers. This proactive stance helps promote market fairness and large-scale accountability among powerful corporate players.

Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, Inc. v. Bumble Bee ...
+70

Economic and Structural Influence

June 18

By challenging alleged anti-competitive practices, the cooperative is working to dismantle structures that enable corporate collusion and concentration, thereby supporting a competitive and decentralized economic landscape. This action helps safeguard small business interests and opposes mechanisms that could lead to authoritarian economic influence.

Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, Inc. v. Bumble Bee ...
DEC

19

2019

Olean Wholesale Files Antitrust Complaint Against Collusive Turkey Market Practices
37.81

On December 19, 2019, Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, together with John Gross & Company, initiated a class action lawsuit alleging that Agri Stats Inc. and major turkey integrators engaged in collusive behavior. The complaint claims that confidential, competitively sensitive information was exchanged among industry giants to manipulate turkey supply and inflate prices, adversely affecting independent retailers and consumers.
+70

Business Practices and Ethical Responsibility

June 18

By filing this lawsuit, Olean Wholesale challenges unethical business practices that undermine fair competition and harm small, independent retailers. Their action serves to curb collusive behaviors that centralize market power and can promote oligarchic control, aligning with anti-authoritarian values.

Complaint-Olean-Wholesale-v-Agri-Stats
+60

Economic and Structural Influence

June 18

The complaint targets market practices that consolidate economic power among a few large players and restrict competition. By challenging these anticompetitive practices, Olean Wholesale is actively pushing back against economic concentration that may foster authoritarian tendencies in the corporate sphere.

Complaint-Olean-Wholesale-v-Agri-Stats