Even beyond this:

Coca-cola and Walmart had a secret inside deal. Nobody could sell coke products for less than Walmart.

When they find out smaller grocery stores are undercutting Walmart to drive traffic, the wholesaler/distributor will go into those smaller chains and force them to pay even higher wholesale prices to force them to raise their prices.

Walmart gets bulk discounts nobody else on the planet receives, then games the market to hedge themselves against everyone else - not setting a fair market price floor, but rather a price ceiling.

They get to be the lowest priced, everyone else the highest.

How? Every time I log in it’s the dumbest thought leadership - and the same copy/paste gpt slop pitched as original insight.