Stopping Price Gouging

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Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, families across the country are struggling to afford groceries. The costs of eggs, milk, bread, baby formula, and fresh produce keep rising while giant grocery chains and corporate executives rake in record profits.

Some of the grocery stores are now using surveillance technology and digital labels to squeeze even more money out of working people.

It is shameful that corporations would raise prices on products that they know families need to survive. For me, this is corporate greed, plain and simple.

No parent, not one individual, should be able to walk into a grocery store wondering if they can afford to feed their families because an algorithm or private data that the grocery chains got decided they can charge them more.

That is why I introduced the Stop Price Gouging and Grocery Stores Act to crack down on crooked pricing practices and protect consumers from corporate abuse. Not one person who goes into a grocery store should worry about their private information being used to jack up their prices. We all deserve fair prices, transparency, and dignity, not exploitation at the grocery store.

Mr. Speaker, I am calling on all of my colleagues to please support me on the Stop Price Gouging and Grocery Stores Act.

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