Colorado AG sues to block merger between parent companies of King Soopers and Safeway
coloradosun.com
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser filed a lawsuit to block the merger of Albertsons and Kroger Inc., the parent of King Soopers.
  • perishthethought@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    23·
    9 months ago

    “Blocking this merger would only serve to strengthen larger, non-unionized retailers like Walmart, Costco and Amazon, by allowing them to maintain and increase their overwhelming and growing dominance of the grocery industry. In contrast, Kroger and Albertsons Companies merging will bring lower prices to more customers, strengthen and create good-paying union jobs, and bring more fresh, affordable food to more communities,” the company said in an email.

    Said the lying liars.

      • perishthethought@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        The plan is usually just: Say whatever you have to to make the deal go through. Do whatever you want after the merger is completed. :(

      • Radium@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        They also just went through a large, highly publicized fight with their union last year. There were strikes. They now turn around and claim their union with pride. Typical capitalistic bullshit

      • perishthethought@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        It’s tricky, yes. I don’t like how big those companies have gotten either, but Kroger claiming that one brand is needed to fight those big boys doesn’t make any sense to me. There’s no way the corner grocery store is going to go away / *everyone *will start buying *all *of their groceries at Walmarts or Costcos. As long as that’s the case, we deserve to have a choice in which grocery store we visit and not just which Kroger store will we go to today.