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by pseudo3d
Yesterday, 9:55 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 364
Views: 23603

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

I doubt C&S is out, I think this just gets them more stores. They have a signed purchase agreement and until FTC formally denies them as a buyer I do not see them going away. Great deal for C&S. If I were them no way I'd be "out" with the bargain price... If C&S does go away I...
by pseudo3d
Yesterday, 8:24 am
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Restaurant Fees
Replies: 22
Views: 937

Re: Restaurant Fees

Perch (rooftop bar in downtown LA) now has a 4.5% "security fee". Typical, business owners continue to force customers to subsidize their business. Customers will continue to be forced to "work" to spend their money and to help owners pay for their overhead expenses (costs for o...
by pseudo3d
March 26th, 2024, 5:52 am
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 364
Views: 23603

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

They are telling CO that the number of divests is increasing. They think this will get CO to drop its lawsuit against the merger. https://www.msn.com/en-ae/money/companies/colorado-s-bid-to-halt-kroger-albertsons-merger-set-for-august-hearing/ar-BB1kwqUz "An attorney for Kroger, Matthew Wolf, ...
by pseudo3d
March 23rd, 2024, 11:36 am
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Chickfila to END "no antibiotics ever" chicken
Replies: 19
Views: 482

Re: Chickfila to END "no antibiotics ever" chicken

Yes, the subject line is correct. This chain made a pledge to sell chicken with "no antibiotics ever" in 2014. It is now ending that pledge. The new pledge is something about no antibiotics important to human medicine. Whatever that means. And whoever concludes what constitutes "impo...
by pseudo3d
March 22nd, 2024, 5:05 pm
Forum: Northeast USA
Topic: Stop & Shop closures
Replies: 98
Views: 12288

Re: Stop & Shop closures

Now, to be honest, I'm just baffled. Didn't have time to go to a lot of stores today but I was in the Morris Plains location this afternoon. Not only was it the best-run Stop & Shop I've visited in a few weeks, it was just a plain old really good supermarket. It's a converted Edwards, last reno...
by pseudo3d
March 21st, 2024, 2:08 pm
Forum: Northeast USA
Topic: Stop & Shop closures
Replies: 98
Views: 12288

Re: Stop & Shop closures

Helpful that you found actual data, which suggests a slow decline in the NYC area and a likely a failure to have much scale in NJ in the first place. You haven't spent enough time here to know that this doesn't stop people here from predicting an apocalypse (or that matter reading too much into one...
by pseudo3d
March 21st, 2024, 8:08 am
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 364
Views: 23603

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

At this point I have to wonder if there is some sort of "due diligence" clause in their merger agreement that negates or reduces the $600M breakup fee if the merger is officially shot down by the court system (instead of being voluntarily withdrawn). That would explain why they say they'r...
by pseudo3d
March 21st, 2024, 8:05 am
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 30+ new Whole Foods leased, more on the way
Replies: 8
Views: 401

Re: 30+ new Whole Foods leased, more on the way

storewanderer wrote: March 20th, 2024, 11:26 pm Could they be trying to prop this thing to spin it off...?
If they combined the operating units, the Amazon Fresh stores need to be renamed, licensed, or closed.
by pseudo3d
March 20th, 2024, 3:10 pm
Forum: California USA
Topic: Albertsons/Vons/Pavilions Cutting Store Hours
Replies: 25
Views: 709

Re: Albertsons/Vons/Pavilions Cutting Store Hours

Albertsons Montebello was 6am-11pm, now it's 5am-11pm. It actually expanded op hours by an hour. Albertsons Vons was 6am-11pm, it didn't change. So both my local stores really didn't cut hours, with one expanding. Both are busy locations close to each other. I think this further validates that they...
by pseudo3d
March 20th, 2024, 3:05 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 364
Views: 23603

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

A&P operated a 55k square foot food and drug chain in the Southeast called The Family Mart in the 1980s and attempted to re-enter Florida after leaving in the 1970s (link). When they left, Kroger bought them all and converted to Florida Choice, though Kroger left within a year or two. Grand Uni...