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Kroger Posts Massive Profits Amid Price Gouging Outcry and Merger Push (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 3 months ago by return2ozma to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So we can start stealing from Kroger now, right?

[–] TommySoda 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wish, but I think they are predicting this. I live in a pretty chill and rural area. Shop lifting has never been an issue here and most people know the employees by name. Within the last couple months they have added a fuck ton of cameras and automatic brakes for all the carts. Went from barely ever having someone on the self checkout to having multiple people always watching with a top view camera on every checkout and two cameras on both sides. If you buy something too big to fit on the checkout area the machine calls an attendant over immediately even if you scanned it. It feels straight up dystopian in there and it makes it so stressful to go there. If it wasn't the only grocery store around me within a 40 mile radius I'd go somewhere else in a heartbeat.

The employees obviously hate it too and think it's just as fucking ridiculous as we all do. Last time I went, this high school girl looked like she was about to lose her shit as she went from checkout to checkout scanning her badge nonstop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Theft, is just an excuse to rob the customers blind for a quick profit. They know the idea that in a lot of communities, their customers are captive and are forced to deal with their mafioso tactics. They also knew with this merger, they can make multiple errors and get by with only acknowledging one in the rush. They’re trying the BP strategy, “We’re Sorry...”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

They'll put money into preventing theft but they wouldn't put that money into local food banks...