Albertsons’ last merger (with Safeway) wreaked enough havoc, especially in towns slightly too large to have an IGA affiliate.
Albertsons’ last merger (with Safeway) wreaked enough havoc, especially in towns slightly too large to have an IGA affiliate.
You love to see it. If I could wave my magic wand, I would say, “No mergers for 10 years. This shit is getting out of hand.”
No guarantee this will actually be stymied, but if it isn’t, we’re going to be a few years out from Trump FTC Allows Kroger-Walmart Merger To Proceed.
It’s almost like the endgame of capitalistic acquisition and consolidation into one giant government=business is just a badly drawn, ad hoc implementation of communism.
It does have the effect of never benefiting labour. So New! Improved! Communism! Now with 50% less wages, paid via scrip!