• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    2 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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      Pretty big thought you’ve got there.

      Have you considered joining forces with another influential thought leader such as @oakey66@lemm.ee? Together you could better serve the commenting community across the platform.

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        2 months ago

        Pretty small effort you’ve put in there.

        Have you considered migrating over to X where it seems you’d fit in better?

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          Damn, no one got the joke about the two top commenters in the thread becoming the same entity?

          Oh well, it was pretty low effort.

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    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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    We sorely need some politicians who are not bought and paid for in this country. The amount of deregulated bullshit, or regulations not being upheld, is too damn high.

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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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      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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    2 months ago

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

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