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[–] etherphon@midwest.social 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Fuck Kroger, they buy up good grocery chains and turn them into the Amazon of grocery stores except they don't have everything they only have one popular brand and then their copy of it, the speed at which they are copying products is truly amazing.

[–] stretch2m 3 points 5 days ago

Or they could do what Wegmans does and offer their store brand EXCLUSIVELY. Drives me nuts.

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Isn't that every big chain though? Safeway does the same thing

[–] etherphon@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah kinda, but they've really ramped it up, they used to only copy like one variety of an item but now they'll just copy the whole product line and put them in similar looking boxes.

[–] DrLeetClown@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Here I thought Kroger owned Safeway. Turns out that merger was actually blocked. Albertsons owns Safeway and the merger between Albertsons and Kroger was blocked in Dec 2024.

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 1 points 5 days ago

Even if it had gone through, the practice was being done before that date. My point is that Kroger is not unique