The Federal Trade Commission said the reduced competition resulting from the $24.6 billion consolidation would raise grocery prices and worsen conditions for store workers.
  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgOPM
    9·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      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.

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgOPM
        5·
        8 months ago

        It does have the effect of never benefiting labour. So New! Improved! Communism! Now with 50% less wages, paid via scrip!