Don’t worry. They totally promised to lower prices if the government approves a merger to give them even more of a monopoly and thusly more direct control over pricing…
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Not really sarcastic tho, theyre legitimately making that argument right now while they’re still price gouging.
It’s just obvious bullshit.
Just like sprint/t mobile. They waited over a decade for the correct pieces of shit to control the ftc before even attempting the buyout, and promised that it would keep lower prices/competition.
Instead, competition has stagnated.
So we can start stealing from Kroger now, right?
I wish, but I think they are predicting this. I live in a pretty chill and rural area. Shop lifting has never been an issue here and most people know the employees by name. Within the last couple months they have added a fuck ton of cameras and automatic brakes for all the carts. Went from barely ever having someone on the self checkout to having multiple people always watching with a top view camera on every checkout and two cameras on both sides. If you buy something too big to fit on the checkout area the machine calls an attendant over immediately even if you scanned it. It feels straight up dystopian in there and it makes it so stressful to go there. If it wasn’t the only grocery store around me within a 40 mile radius I’d go somewhere else in a heartbeat.
The employees obviously hate it too and think it’s just as fucking ridiculous as we all do. Last time I went, this high school girl looked like she was about to lose her shit as she went from checkout to checkout scanning her badge nonstop.
They’ll put money into preventing theft but they wouldn’t put that money into local food banks…
