Someone’s missing the point. I hope the FTC tells them to get fucked.
Same. Both of these companies have done acquisitions over the years, all promising better prices and more jobs when the end result is poorer quality products at the same or higher price and less jobs overall.
I hope the FTC tells them to get bent.
Pro tip to regulators: STOP. ALLOWING. MERGERS. They just make companies bigger and more powerful, while rarely helping the majority of workers.
Or consumers.
I used to love Kroger. Until the pandemic, everything is 30% more. Went to Walmart a few weeks back and saved so much, it was nuts. I hate Walmart but I guess now I’m going back.
Get to an Aldi if you have one near you!
I haven’t shopped regularly at Kroger since I found out about Aldi around 2017. I never did like Kroger’s membership program and they’ve only added tiers to it since. I do love their brand of natural peanut butter (just peanuts and salt in the ingredients list), so on the rare occasion I’ll stop by to pick that up. Each time I have stopped by, I see more and more ridiculous pricing and with dumb tiered membership pricing on the tags which is annoying when trying to get pricing info at a glance.
I would love for there to be an Aldis here. Got WinCo and their prices and quality are really good. I almost never shop at Walmart or Smith’s (Kroger) anymore.
What membership program? They only have the rewards that’s also used to clip coupons and get the special prices and the other one for free shipping, don’t they?
We shop at aldi mainly and then go to kroger or Meijer for the stuff we could get there
Kroger has a card where you get discounts for having it.
edit: not sure why I’m getting downvoted. This is what I’m talking about https://www.kroger.com/pr/free-membership
Walmart is hilariously cheaper.
Some advice from Canada, whose gov’t didn’t stop grocery store mergers … get out and protest the fuck out of this or in a few year’s time it will be far, far worse than now.
So who’s buying 166 grocery stores?
A: C&S Wholesale Grocers
https://www.cswg.com/services/private-label-brands/
Best Yet
That’s Smart!
Piggly Wiggly - Never been in one, but I’ve at least heard of it.
IGA - This one I know, rare to see in the wild here.
TopCare
Simply Done
Full Circle
Culinary Tours
Crav’n Flavor
Paws Premium
Pure Harmony
Tippy ToesAlbertsons has been closing stores in my area and what’s replaced them isn’t other grocery stores. So much for “increasing competition”. So far it’s been condos, and a hobby lobby.
My Albertsons became another megachurch… /facepalm
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Then why would they be buying 166 grocery stores from Albertson’s and Kroger?
I’d bet they’re just parking the stores temporarily only to buy them back later after the deal happens. But then I’m a cynic.
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I hope they get denied, because they can rebuy those stores again.
Ma Bell came back with a vengeance after it was split
I want a Publix. I hate them. But their food is good lol
???
It’s a generic butcher/bakery and the brands carried everywhere else, but they charge you more for the privilege and pay their employees less.
Go get Publix branded Cole slaw key lime pie and potato salad and then go get Kroger and compare them. Then come back and have the conversation with the knowledge you need to have this conversation.
Coleslaw key lime pie sounds disgusting so I think I’ll pass.
Or I can not compare which garbage is best…
Hard to believe you can consider something garbage without trying it but you go on being you my dude. I’ll keep on keeping on also and we will both realize you’ve wasted all our times by being inflammatory and rude and presenting an anti opinion.
Bro it’s a store bakery pie, they just added a shitload of sugar and chemical flavoring to it, it doesn’t need to be a personality trait for you… Try an actual local bakery’s version out one day, it’ll blow your mind, I promise.
How would you know? Your just spitting feelings. Go try it and come back with some facts or stop wasting my time.
Bro thinks Publix bakery pies are unattainable luxuries beyond the ken of the average man
