Si chinsinsi chakuti kupanga chakudya kumagwirizanitsidwa kwambiri . Malinga ndi Mary Hendrickson, pulofesa wa zaumoyo ndi zaulimi ku yunivesite ya Missouri-Columbia, ali ndi ndalama zokwana 20 zokhazokha zogwiritsira ntchito hafu ya ng'ombe ku United States ndipo akugwirizanitsa kwambiri ndi makampani anayi omwe amagwiritsira ntchito ma processing omwe amachititsa 81 peresenti ya kukonza ng'ombe. Ponseponse m'magulu azinthu zamakampani monga kupanga ndi kugulitsa, magulu akuluakulu amagwiritsa ntchito unyolo.
Mchaka cha 2001, makampani asanu akuluakulu a US supermarket anali makina oposa 40 peresenti ya malonda, monga Hendrickson. Mega-amgwirizano pakati pa mabungwewa amasiya ogula ndi mitengo yamtengo wapamwamba komanso yosasankha, pamene alimi akulephera kuthetsa mphamvu zamtengo wapatali zogulitsa katundu.
Bungwe la Federal Trade Commission (FTC) posachedwa linapereka chigamulo chotsutsana ndi Sysco kutenga chakudya cha US Foods, potsutsa kuti kusamukirako kungachititse kampaniyo kulamulira 75 peresenti ya ntchito yowonjezera chakudya, yomwe imapereka zophikira zamakono ku United States. Debbie Feinstein, yemwe ndi Mtsogoleri wa Bungwe la Mpikisano wa FTC, anati: "Kuphatikizana kumeneku kukanatha kuthetsa mpikisano waukulu pamsika ndikupanga malo ogulitsa zakudya zamtundu wadziko lonse." "Ogulitsa kudziko lonse, ndipo malonda omwe amawatumikira amapindula ndi mpikisano wathanzi pakati pa Sysco ndi US Foods, kaya amadya ku lesitilanti, hotelo, kapena chipatala." Chiyero cha boma chidzayamba pa July 21, 2015.
Heinz adalengeza pa March 25, 2015, kuti kampaniyo idzagula Kraft Foods mu US $ 45 biliyoni ya mega-merger. Kuphatikizidwa kwa makampaniwa ku Kraft Heinz kudzakhazikitsa ufumu wachitatu kumphamvu ya North America, yokhazikika ndi Nestle ndi PepsiCo. Kugulitsa kwa makampani onsewa kwasintha, chifukwa chosintha malonda a ogula zakudya zathanzi.
Ngakhale matabwa a makampani awiriwa adagwirizana ndi mgwirizanowu, mgwirizano udzafunikanso kupeza olowa nawo kale ndi federal anti-trust regulators musanafike.
Sitikudziwitseni ngati FTC ikhoza kutsutsana ndi Kraft Heinz. "Kungowonjezereka sikutanthauza kusakhulupirika," anatero Ben Gomes-Casseres, pulofesa ku Brandeis International Business School ku Boston. "Izi sizili msika womwewo, kuphatikizapo zakudya zokonzedwa ... sindikuyembekezera mtengo wa ketchup kukwera." Ena akuyembekeza kuti mgwirizano ukhoza kutsogolo kwa ogula, chifukwa cha kuchuluka kwa opanga chakudya ndi ogulitsa. "Zonsezi zimaphatikizapo [ogula] chinyengo cha kusankha. Iwo akuganiza, 'O, yesani pazida zonsezi,' "anatero Diana Moss, pulezidenti wa American Antitrust Institute. "Koma chomwe wogula sichiwona ndi chiwerengero chaching'ono ndi chaching'ono cha opanga omwe akusunga mankhwalawa."
Zowonjezera zina zogula matikiti amphatikizapo Hershey kupeza Krave Pure Foods, JM Smucker kugula Meow Mix, ndi kutenga Tyson Foods ya Hillshire Brands. Atsogoleri a bizinesi ya 3G, yomwe inagwirizana ndi ntchito ya Kraft Heinz, akuti akuyang'ana Campbell Soup Co ndi PepsiCo kuti adziwe.
3G ndi gulu lachinsinsi lomwe likusandulika kwa Burger King la Tim Horton. Malinga ndi mdindo wotchuka Warren Buffet, "anthu awa ali ndi zilakolako zadziko lonse."
Kuphatikizana kapena kugula bwino si njira yokha yothandizira kuyanjanitsa makampani mu chakudya. Coco-Cola adagula magawo a Green Mountain Coffee Roasting (GMCR), omwe ali okonzeka kukulitsa katundu wake wa Keurig m'mayiko onse. Poyamba kuwonjezeka gawo lake la katundu ku kampaniyo, Coca-Cola ikuwonjezeka pamtundu wa GMCR ndipo ingakhale ikukonzekera kukwaniritsa.
Zolemba zamagulu zakhala zikugonjetsedwa ndi mafakitale omwewo amalumikizana.
Mu September wa 2014, General Mills adapeza a Homegrown a Annie, omwe amadziwika bwino ndi makampani ake ndi tchizi, chifukwa cha US $ 820 miliyoni. Dr. Phil Howard, Pulofesa Wothandizira ku Michigan State, akuyang'ana "omwe ali ndi organic," omwe amasindikiza ma chart omwe amasonyeza malonda. "Ogulitsa amene akufuna makampani odyetsa omwe amapeza zinthu zowonjezera zakuthupi angachite bwino kufunafuna mankhwala kuchokera ku mafakitale odziimira okha," Howard alangizi. "Chifukwa cha masewera olimbitsa thupi omwe akulimbana nawo, akuwongolera okha osakaniza kuti sangathe kupulumuka popanda thandizoli."
Pali zifukwa zotsutsana ndi malamulo odana ndi chikhulupiriro. Polamulira gawo la msika, makampani ochepa amatha kulamula mitengo ndi kufalitsa ochepa. Kuti akhale okondana mu mgwirizano wa mgwirizano, ngakhale makampani akuluakulu ayenera kusuntha nthawi zonse kuti apange opanga phindu. Mega-makampani ogulitsa chakudya amatha kukambirana za malonda a mayiko ena, akuwononga zakudya za m'madera ndi m'madera.
Kugula kuchokera kwa ogulitsa am'deralo ndi am'derali ndikofunikira popititsa patsogolo mabizinesi ang'onoang'ono, ndikupempha mabungwe kuti azichita chimodzimodzi akhoza kuthetsa mphamvu yogula kwa ogulitsa omwe amakhulupirira kuti ali ndi mpikisano wokhutiritsa komanso wodalirika wa chakudya chokhazikika. Thandizo la zaumoyo Popanda kuvulaza ndikugwira ntchito kuti lipititse patsogolo zipatala ndikupempha mayankho a mayankho kuchokera kwa ogwira ntchito zaumoyo. Chosowa Chakudya Chachilendo ndicho kuyesa kuchotsa chakudya cha mgulu kuchokera ku koleji ndi zipinda zodyera ku yunivesite, kutsindika kufunika kwa kugula komweko ndi kumadera kwa makina ogulitsa osatha. National Farm to School Network ikugwirizanitsa chakudya chamasukulu ku minda ya kumidzi, kudula ogulitsa amalonda ndi opanga chakudya. Ndikofunika kuthandizira njira zowunikira ndikukhala ndikupempha sukulu ndi mabungwe kuti azichita chimodzimodzi.