Sorry that's happening to you. Best of luck!
Posted on 12/07/2022 12:16:39 PM PST by lowbridge
Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights questioned the woke CEOs of grocery store giants Kroger and Albertsons about their proposed $25 billion merger last week.
Fearing this deal will “raise prices, cut jobs and exacerbate inequality in food access through the closing of more locations,” unions and progressive advocacy groups oppose the deal and have lobbied the Biden administration to stop the planned merger, according to The Hill,
During his questioning of Kroger CEO William Rodney McMullen, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican, delivered one of the best legislative smackdowns I’ve seen in a long time.
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Cotton also referenced Kroger’s “Allyship Guide,” which instructed employees to stop using the terms “‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ because they’re not inclusive.”
“Okay. You know, this situation reminds me a little bit of the situation Big Tech companies have found themselves in in recent years. They’ve come to Washington because they fear regulation from our Democratic friends or action by the Biden Administration. And they expect Republicans, who are traditionally more supportive of free enterprise to come to their defense. And I have cautioned them for years that if they silence conservatives and center right voters across the country, if they discriminate against them in their company, they probably shouldn’t come and ask Republican senators to carry the water for them whenever our Democratic friends want to regulate them or block their mergers.”
Then came the zinger: “So, I have heard a lot of questioning about that today, and I’ve read a lot about it in the news, and I will say this: I’m sorry that’s happening to you. Best of luck.”
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nothing burger
Good for him!
Love it.
Nice words, Tom. Now let’s follow that with meaningful action, and I’m not talking about sternly worded letters.
Ouch. Bravo!
Nice talk, but what about some action?
Kroger needs to spend more time on the quality of their stores, and less on WOKE-isms.
Publix and Harris-Teeter are far superior in products and cleanliness to Kroger.
The “action”, in this case is just doing nothing to help Kroger. Let the Democrats screw them over and don’t lift a finger - or vote - to help them. I kind of like that approach.
The Kroger (Fred Meyer) grocery store near me is the “wokeist” grocery store in the area. All of the employees wear a rainbow button. Several of the male employees wear dresses. The organization attacks traditional values. They support BLM. They are the enemy.
People on the right owe that organization nothing. I hope Republican legislatures shun them.
HT is now Kroger.
That made me laugh too. We have a lot of uninformed people on FR. Makes the site look stupid sometimes.
The gubs need to hold the steering wheel in food supply matters. That's their agenda at least.
Cotton voted to accept unlimited voter fraud on Jan 6th. That’s all I need to know about him.
Rots of luck..that is.
Sorry that's happening to you. Best of luck!
It was brutal. But in all fairness Republicans do not control the senate and there is little a they can do beside filibuster.
Blah, blah blah... Always words, never action.
I hear you, perhaps Going Galt on them all is the best we can hope for.
Kroger is unionized.
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