Canada

That happened a decade ago. You can't find many pet supplies anywhere anymore because one company owns the distributors and the stores -- and they don't give a shit because they're American and Canada is too small of a market to support, so it's left to wither and die.

The same with Veterinary services. They've all be bought up, made into chains, or signed bullshit distribution or service agreements by a single (American) company and now it costs many multiples what it used to for no reason except greed.

This isn't surprising. It is basic economics.

Where does the money for the investor's dividends come from?

I know what you mean by your wording so I’m not jumping on that, but it’s worth noting that like, eating isn’t a luxury or something that smart people do or rich people or dumb people or whatever. If you have a grocery store in a town/country and it’s the only store (or the vast plurality of realistic options that are all owned by the same company with different faces), you basically don’t have a choice but to submit to this weird “math”, no matter how smart or dumb you are.

Electrifying farm equipment has huge engineering hurdles. They need a massive amount of power, which would mean very large and incredibly expensive battery packs. Those batteries would take either a long time to charge, or high current charging stations.

During seeding or harvest the machines often run for 16+ hours a day, and are literally out in the middle of a field. Where is the super-fast charging station going to go? They can't easily travel all the machinery back to home base every night, and there's no way it makes economical sense for a farm operation to get chargers installed at every field.

These are not necessarily insurmountable problems. There are a number of similarities to trucking, for example, and that's an industry that's starting to see electrification now. But the logistical problems are much harder than trucking. The biggest reason that John Deere etc... aren't making electric tractors right now is that no one would buy one, because no one has any infrastructure in place for it.

Part of the reason is likely that farming equipment is bloody expensive. A new combine harvester can cost nearly a million dollars, and there aren't a hell of a lot of used electrical machines on the market yet. Each farm will have several machines that currently run on gas or diesel. How many can the average farmer afford to replace how fast?