"Big grocers have big problems with Obamacare’s calorie labels."

"[I]f forced to comply, Krogers would need to spend $20 million to come into compliance with the new regulations."

And it’s not just about buying poster board and listing calorie counts. It’s about figuring out how many calories each item has to begin with.

“All those items have to be sent out to a nutrition lab,” [a Kroger spokesman said]. “That’s a pretty big undertaking... These regulations make sense for a restaurant, but that’s not the case for a bakery in a grocery store... We might have thousands of SKUs for birthday cakes and thousands of types of prepared pizza. The problem is it forces us to label all of that, down to the olive bars and salad bars.”

I'm not really seeing why these regulations make sense for a restaurant. But I do see the perverse incentive on grocery stores to get rid of in-store preparations and rely on pre-labeled packaged things.