Gods I hope this merger is killed. It would be so bad for all consumers. In my neighborhood there are 4 grocery stores. 2 Safeways, 1 Fred Meyer, and a Grocery Outlet. If it goes through, that is 75% Kroger. At least if I go a few miles down the road there is a local chain (that is sadly super expensive, think whole foods but local) and a Trader Joe's.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
19 points (100.0% liked)
U.S. News
2232 readers
112 users here now
News about and pertaining to the United States and its people.
Please read what's functionally the mission statement before posting for the first time. We have a narrower definition of news than you might be accustomed to.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Post the original source of information as the link.
- If there is a paywall, provide an archive link in the body.
- Post using the original headline; edits for clarity (as in providing crucial info a clickbait hed omits) are fine.
- Social media is not a news source.
For World News, see the News community.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Agreed. We have three "large" grocery stores in town: a Safeway (Albertson's), Grocery Outlet, and a local grocery store which, like yours, is extremely expensive. Our Safeway appeared on the list of divestitures and I think that would probably raise prices as well as change the staples we have available. It sounds like a bad situation all around.
Yup. All around bad for people. Much like the Safeway Albertson's merger was also very bad.
As it should be, since roughly HALF of the recent inflation was actually price gouging.
Hopefully the bid is blocked.
In Canada we havent had any grocers mergers refused in the last twenty, thirty years of neocon rule. (both major parties seem fine with companies growing unchecked)
Now nationwide we only three big grocers, monopolies running unchecked is an affordability nightmare.