I am totally against the Merger.
this merger should never have been considered (assuming anyone knows what a Monopoly is)
While I have noticed that albertsons has had supply issues of late, but in my area that would leave winco, walmart and costco as the only possible competitors.
but there are none of those within 20 miles.
Kroger has given me lots of crap about scanning my ID. I was forced to sue them so they don’t do that anymore, but they still give me crap and call me a troublemaker whenever I walk into my local stores.
If it is not a local store I get really annoyed at them and have had lots of bad experiences, at one I was lucky that the Dist Mgr was there, he also gave me a ration of crap and Threatened to call Corporate. I told him he better get on with it cause while I had all day he was about to get a civil rights lawsuit. 10 minutes later their attys told him to kiss my ass.
Kroger here in the midwest is unionized with high prices and surly employees. Easily avoided.
someone pm me and asked what I meant:
if you try to buy beer, wine, spirits, nicotine in any form or cold meds from Kroger they will ask to see your id, then they will grab it and scan it with their grocery scanner without your permission.
in most states that will allow them to capture more than enough info to steal your identity.
they claim that it does not, but they lie. (otherwise why would they get so butthurt if you refuse.)
Also they have no real data security.
They claim there was a memo, and then make up stuff about what it said. I read it, and the stuff they make up about what they think it said is so laughable.
kinda like “Totally Safe and Effective”
I had to sue RiteAid also, that was much easier cause they are under a current consent decree for failing to have data security.
Thanks, I am also against the merger. Under Kroger our Fred Meyer stores have become a little bit too controlling. I have started shopping smaller more local stores even if less convenient.
We havea about 8 or 9 major chains within 15 miles (OK, two of the chains are owned by Algertson, so subtract one for that), two warehouse stores, and specialy grocers for Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indian.