[DasCorCor]

They’re colluding to fix prices. That is a cartel. It is facilitated by a middleman app. Still unethical, and should be illegal.

[gruez]

Right, but "companies raise prices more than inflation based cost increases in production would allow for" non-sequitur. There's plenty of ways that prices can raise faster than input costs, that doesn't imply price fixing.

[MetaWhirledPeas]

> that doesn't imply price fixing

But Potatorac and Agri Stats do. They are price-fixing right out in the open.

[ddtaylor]

The author is doing some extra work to connect dots that might otherwise be better left connected by the readers.