<div id="readability-page-1">PepsiCo and Walmart are under renewed legal scrutiny after a previously sealed federal complaint laid out allegations that the soft drink maker spent years keeping prices low for Walmart while pushing them higher for rival retailers. The unsealed documents, tied to a Robinson-Patman Act case first filed by federal regulators and later dropped, now sit at the center of a wave of consumer and retailer lawsuits claiming the arrangement inflated...</div>

<p>PepsiCo and Walmart are facing a class action lawsuit over allegations of a decade-long price scheme. The lawsuit claims PepsiCo kept prices low for Walmart while raising them for rival retailers, violating the Robinson-Patman Act. The unsealed federal complaint has led to a wave of consumer and retailer lawsuits, accusing the companies of inflating prices.</p>

- PepsiCo and Walmart face renewed legal scrutiny due to allegations in a previously sealed federal complaint. 
- The complaint claims that PepsiCo maintained low prices for Walmart while increasing them for competing retailers, violating the Robinson-Patman Act. 
- This situation has led to multiple consumer and retailer lawsuits asserting that the pricing strategy inflated costs.

PepsiCo and Walmart face class action lawsuit over alleged decade-long price scheme