I don’t know about y’all, but I will not ever be going shopping here.
Kroger promises to lower grocery prices by $1 billion after artificially inflating them by $3 billion.
Oh, so just like their normal “sale” items.
Prices are probably skyrocketing as we type in preparation for this “massive” amount of savings.
Blackmail
Literal blackmail. Agreed
More like extortion.
Why would anyone trust them right after the price gouging during the pandemic and long after logistics had adapted?
That’s the neat part, we don’t.
Fuckin lies… No for profit business ever said hey let’s spend a bunch of money to buy another business to make less money.
They aren’t even saying that.
After the merger closes, Kroger will invest $1 billion to lower Albertsons’ prices, consistent with Kroger’s track record of fighting inflation and providing value to customers.
So, they’re going to invest $1 billion to lower prices (which the writer speculates will be through “increasing efficiencies and improving its supply chain”).
Which they already claim they actively do in order to lower prices
increasing efficiencies and improving its supply chain
That just sounds like sourcing lower quality food stuff to save their bottom line
Nah it’s going to be a billion dollars and putting those prices that can change at the drop of a hat with AI is help The digital ones. They’re expensive
“You should let us reduce competition in the grocery space, because with less competition prices will be lower.”
That’s a bold take.
$omething tell$ me it will probably $till work though.
Walmart has been doing it for decades to achieve its low prices. The problem isn’t that it won’t work, it’s just still a shitty thing to squeeze every cent from your suppliers.
Wal*Mart does definitely squeeze their suppliers, and it does have relatively low prices, but it’s hardly a charity. It squeezes suppliers, not so that it can supply customers with low prices but so that it can provide profits to investors.
Economies of scale do allow for lower prices. Problem being, monopolies do not.
Economies of scale allow for lower costs, not lower prices. Lower prices are a choice that companies make, and it’s a choice they don’t have to make if they don’t have competitors.
You didn’t lower prices when you put in self checkout. Don’t piss on me and call it rain.
Self checkout did lower the prices if you play the game right.
For example, one time I had 2 donuts in a bag, but I rang them up as just 1 donut. Please dont tell the cops.
If I see you stealing food, no I didn’t.
I wouldn’t snitch even if I saw someone walking out with a wagon of money from the store safe. Fuck corporations.
1 year later
Why is my neighborhood a food desert??
imagine being so brainwashed by corpos that you forget that small businesses exist and can easily take the place of every walmart.
I’m talking about my own lived experience, and it fucking sucks.
food deserts only happen when corporations move in, push out all the competition, then leave.
How did two donuts become one donut though? Are you a wizard?
I always seem to lose count when scanning the same item repeatedly. I’m sure I got close to 12, and that’s close enough.
Those blackmailing fucks can go to hell
No that sounds an awful lot like extortion. That’s a crime you know.
‘improving their services’
=
extracting more value from their consumers
Do it right now then.
Force them to break up into all their constituent companies.
Competition and the free market, also free of M&A’s, will help pricing for everyone, including suppliers and customers.
Be great if we could elect anti-merger reps.
Darth Kroger after the merger: “I have altered the plan, pray I do not alter it further”
First they added self checkout to reduce headcount, then came the price fixing/gouging. Then their shrink increased because people got tired of being fucked by Kroger. Then they had that shady deal with the UFCW. Then they decided to treat everyone that shops there like a criminal.
I’ll never return.
