However, its control of the market has been weakened by a breakaway group, Northland Cranberries. The results are increased cranberry production and lower prices paid to farmers. The traditional funeral industry is suffering from a stable death rate, regulations, and the growth of competition from vendors of cut-price caskets and from alternatives such as cremation. The industry wants regulations to apply to nontraditional providers of death care services. The company argues that it is due to business travelers being a greater proportion of its passengers.
Critics retort that fares are still too high.
The biggest Coca-Cola bottler is facing an antitrust lawsuit claiming that its exclusive territory gives it too much control over prices and allows it to engage in price discrimination. The Federal Communications Commission has rejected the Telmex proposal for the prices charged to other carriers for completing phone calls between the US and Mexico. It has also criticized the surcharges levied by Telmex on each call. Consumers are said to be hurt, but Telmex denies that the public interest has been hurt. They have displaced smaller stores and become local islands of monopoly.