Attorney General William Tong sent a letter to five of the top food distributors with footprints in Connecticut, expanding the state’s inquiry into unaffordable grocery prices that have remained stubbornly high since initial spikes during the COVID pandemic.
“No one needs a report to see that grocery prices are way too high and that Connecticut families are getting squeezed. Our inquiry has found no obvious evidence to date of price gouging by Connecticut retail grocers, only that they are likely getting squeezed by the same unsustainable market forces hurting consumers. This includes supply chain disruptions due to conflicts abroad, bird flu outbreaks, rising costs of business, and now the needless added pressures of Trump’s illegal and unconscionable suspension of SNAP benefits, tariffs wars and immigration raids that will only make all our lives more unaffordable. We are continuing our inquiry up the supply chain and will not hesitate to use the full weight of our enforcement authority against any unlawful profiteering and federal overreach harming consumers,” said Attorney General Tong.