• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    7 months ago

    So maybe it’s just me, but if you have to make promises of spending a billion dollars so that the government will let you buy your next biggest competitor, perhaps you’re already too damn big and don’t need to be gobbling up your entire industry?

    Like I said, just a thought.

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    7 months ago

    Fuck Kroger

    They killed Lucky’s. It was the best damn grocery store I’ve ever had. It had such potential.

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    Irrelevant to the discussion but Kroger fucking sucks as a grocery store in general. I think I’d rather go to Walmart than Kroger

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      7 months ago

      Their onions are often rotten inside despite the outside looking fine. There’s a local Korean market near stocks local produce as well and it’s always way better. Kroger has reached the “line must go up” enshittification point, it seems.

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      7 months ago

      Sucking corporate dick is the one thing the courts do best, so I can basically promise you’ll get your wish.

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    7 months ago

    I don’t see any concrete promise made, much less any penalty holding them to a concrete promise.

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    7 months ago

    $800 million spent in merger fees, they are almost at their $1billuon investment into “lowering prices”