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Republican state Attorneys General push for grocery mega-merger between Kroger and Albertsons (www.citybeat.com)

submitted 4 months ago by DougHolland to c/aiop

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[–] mipadaitu 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

With grocery prices being what they are, I can't imagine any rational person thinks this is a good idea.

Edit: Even without high grocery prices, having this much of a monopoly on groceries would be insane.

[–] AshMan85 19 points 4 months ago

Because he is being bribed to say it is good

[–] Jollyllama 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Curious how much it cost Kroger-Albertsons to get this support? What was it worth to sell out workers and consumers?

[–] JoshuaFalken 10 points 4 months ago

If donation histories from other politicians I've seen are any indication, it's sad how little these people sell out for. If only they all joined a union, they could leverage their political positions to get much more money out of the corporations.

When it comes to Dave Yost, I don't see anything in the last five years specific to Kroger or Albertsons - not to say they didn't funnel money to his campaign somehow - got about $6,000 from a couple food companies.

Steve Marshall of Alabama fame got $2,000 or so.

Georgia's Chris Carr seems to be an outlier here in that he gets most of his funding from a variety of alcohol distributors and himself to the tune of roughly $400,000.

That leaves us with Tom Miller representing Iowa, by all appearances doesn't get donations from 'big food' but does get consistent donations from Berkshire Hathaway, which I think is strange for a Democrat, but it's probably a normalized oddity.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 9 points 4 months ago

Well if republiQan AG's are behind it, it must be a good idea