Very rare pro-consumer W
As a Canadian, what’s it like?
Albertsons has been buying up competitors for a while.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertsons
Kroger has a few too:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger#Chains
They turned Pavilions from a nice store to another dingy grocery. I can’t imagine this going through would be good for consumers. Many neighborhoods only have access to 2 stores at best, and I suspect most are already owned by the same parent. A merger would further turn this into a monopoly.
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So rare.
Bold of them to believe they’ll stop price gouging regardless.
Shittier services and higher prices/more fees, every merger ever.
Read yesterday about Wendy’s rolling out new electronic menus this year so they can enact dynamic pricing. Can’t wait until Surge pricing hits another non-negotiable like food.
Burn all these oligarchs down.
Yhgtbsm. Charge people more during a lunch rush because it’s convenient to do so. For fast food. Fuck them.
That’s stripping the “supply” out of “supply and demand” and just making it “demand pricing.”
They demand you pay more.
Didn’t Albertson’s already merge with Safeway?
They did, yes
People are talking about combining the names. If Albertson’s and Safeway didn’t, I suspect it will be the same with Kroger.
Illusion of choice
It’s interesting living in a partof the USA where I couldn’t even tell you where a Kroger or Albertsons is. Maybe they don’t tend to overlap with Food Lion’s?
Prices are already outrageous. We don’t need more of that.
Having a non-nationalized monopoly is stupid and bad.
But being champions of free market economics, and then being shocked pikachu when the free market does free market things is even stupider. Especially when nothing is done to reign in this free market crap.
The US wants to be socialist so bad, but can’t get their populous to vote for it because of scary words they don’t understand. Instead it’s done as a random patchwork that of course doesn’t work and corporate lobbying just makes it appear as an illusion of choice.
Next time you’re out shopping in Walmart or Kroger or whatever look at the aisle you’re in and the choices. Let’s say cereal. 200 different choices of flavour. 50 different “brands”. In reality it’s all 1 company. There may be a couple outliers but it’s all the same company selling the same sugary processed crap giving you the illusion of choice.
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This
Kroger and Albertsons are the two major chains in my city (known as Fry’s and Safeway here). If they merge, their only real competition left is Walmart.
That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t secretly merged decades ago already. Their products, prices, and branding are nearly identical. Even the commercials they play over the store speakers are the same.
Okay we’ll stop the merger. I just need to tell them tomorrow while I’m there to get some tortillas for lunch. Albertsons, …it’s my store! 🎶 🎵
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I wonder how much Walmart paid for that lawsuit.
