An article in the Wall Street Journal (March 21, 2024) titled ‘FTC Finds Large Grocers Used Size to Stock Shelves During the Pandemic” describes claims that large grocery retailers demanded stricter delivery requirements and levied fines on suppliers who did not comply. The result, claim independent smaller retailers, is that they faced higher wholesale prices or received smaller allocations. The FTC also claims that larger retailers raised prices faster than supplier cost increases, thus increasing profits. Since prices at large retailers are usually lower on average than smaller retailers, did such a shift of availability hurt customers as a whole or help them in aggregate ? Should larger retailers be prevented from using their scale to improve customer access to products ? As long as there is sufficient retail competition, is it necessary to focus on the details of operations across retailers of different sizes ?