“I would reject the merger due to antitrust concerns”
What antitrust concerns?
If the merger went through, she said, the combined Albertsons-Kroger and Walmart would control 70 percent or more of the market in 167 cities in the United States. “We don’t need another mega grocery store chain,” said Stacy Mitchell, co-executive director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, an advocacy group that challenges areas of concentrated corporate power, such as the grocery industry.
Yeah. Bernie and the gang may be liberal. But even the broken clock is right right a day. Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican and he was huge on breaking up trusts.