Episode 132: Roundtable Conversation on How Trade Spend and Slotting Fees Shape The Grocery Industry

The Checkout presents this special conversation about the grocery industry, with a focus on how the money changes hands behind the scenes and how that shapes what you buy.

Claire Kelloway is the program manager for fair food and farming systems at the Open Markets Institute. She is the primary writer for Food & Power, a website, providing original reporting and resources on monopoly power in agriculture. Kelloway has written for outlets such as The Intercept, Time, Vox, and ProPublica.

Sophie D'Anieri is an anthropology PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, where she studies agricultural labor and food economies in the U.S. Midwest and Mexico. 

Charlie Mitchell is a journalist, researcher, and copywriter living in Baltimore. His journalism has appeared in print issues of Sierra and Mother Jones and online at The Guardian, The New Republic, and other websites. Since 2022 his work has appeared under the byline Charlie Hope-D'Anieri. He is on Twitter @hopedanieri.

This conversation is based on research done by the interviewees for a recent retail conference: https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/isp/documents/2022_march_12_retail_conference_booklet-v2.pdf

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