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Oh my God.. don’t get me started on these corporate grocery games! Great exposé here.

I just can’t believe Kroger’s ‘good’ intentions for lowering prices. This basically admits they have control over them, are responsible, and that they have latitude to change that. That this merger is the answer to lower costs and help eliminate food deserts. Well, I call bullshit. It’s going to take a literal act of Congress to pry corporations from their ill gotten over-inflated profits from which principals will siphon whatever they can while they can. And we’ve known since 2019 Kroger doesn’t share well, it’s workers chronically underpaid and left fairly defenseless during the start of the Covid pandemic, overworked and exhausted as those with kids shut from school turned in their aprons and fled for home. Kroger gave them “raises” at the start and then took them away earlier this year when Covid seemed manageable. These are just some of the results at the lowest tiers of behemoth grocery stores. It’s come to the point that anything corporate related is poisoned-by lack of oversight & character, and can’t be trusted to serve anyone but themselves & shareholders even though their entire being depends on the buying public.

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