Giant Eagle bros, how are we taking this?They plan on closing down various GE locations.GE was always where I went because Kroger's supply lines suck and they always don't have stuff or are out of stock.https://www.supermarketnews.com/mergers-acquisitions/kroger-eyes-columbus-for-giant-eagle-divestitures-reports
>>22105037You'll just have to grow up and deal with it. There's nothing you can do about it.
The article says only in Ohio. Many anons live in the shithole midwest, but how many live in Ohio?
>>22105043>t. Kroger shill
>>22105065Ohio is the 7th most populous state
>>22105037kroger has much better sales, giant eagle has somewhat better selection but if I want extra fancy shit I'll just go to heinen's.>>22105065this state is a suburban hellhole, it reminds me a lot of long island but stretched out over much more land.
>>22105037are they actually closing the stores, or just going to sell them off? the article just says divest, so i assume they'll try to pawn them off onto some other chain. anyways, i hate the dirty bird grocery stores i used to go to. kroger stores are at least nicer. i do like the getgo gas station mto food. it's better than sheetz.
>>22105086Where I live, there are no other chains.
>>2210503795% of the Giant Eagles in Pennsylvania are literally stuck in the 70s. Nearly 0 effort went into remodeling and building new stores. Stopped shopping there 15 years ago. I want grocery stores with nice prepared food areas and tasty meals.
>>22105086When a retailer buys a competitor, it's common for the government to require they sell off stores in certain locations to preserve the appearance of there being competition. Ohio is Kroger's home state, they have it blanketed with stores. In many of the Giant Eagle locations, it's the only competition for Kroger, so they'll have to sell off those stores. Most of the time the government doesn't care if the buyer closes stores, even though that too can give the buy a de facto monopoly in an area.Kroger got burnt badly by the failed Albertson's merger. Going after Giant Eagle probably is an ego thing, like fucking a fat girl after being dumped by a hottie to trick your brain into think you're still a chad. >>22105261Your situation is one of the few where it somewhat makes sense for a large chain to be able to buy up a smaller one, since they have the capital and operational efficiencies to being those older locations up to modern expectations. On the other hand, you might end up paying more. In my experience, Kroger is usually the most expensive grocery store on the middle class category. You have to go to Whole Foods or Fresh Thyme to be more expensive than Kroger.
Now you know how us Harris Teeter bros feel
>>22105261i've only been to a couple giant eagles around cleveland but they're all nice and modern with at least as much premade food selection as any other grocer
>>22105037fuck this molopoly kroger is a fucking ripoff
>>22105108> No other chainsPic relNot like it's your fault, that just sounds horrible for competitive pricing
Who wants to go back to tiny chains with at most a couple dozen locations? Or do most want all the extra services and selection of the big chains?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fc5oRh3yW8
>>22105463There was a brief period, through the 90s-00s, where the buy-up of smaller concerns by larger chains gave us a near perfect balance of the variety of smaller shops, plus the convenience of the larger ones. But now that the small ones are all gone, the big chains are hard at work enshitifying the customer experience. We didn't know what we had until it was gone.
>>22105486The problem is that generations of people knew this would be bad. That’s why we have antitrust laws going back to the 1800s.A bunch of bastards in charge within the past few decades decided their lobbyist relationships were more important than the experience of the average American though.
>>22105349>like fucking a fat girl after being dumped by a hottieDamn I wish I was Kroger RN. Sometimes a plumpy is just what the Dr ordered.
>>22105463i would prefer everyone just specialize in something and we go back to separate butchers, fish mongers, produce stands, farmers markets, bakeries, etc.
>>22105037>Giant Eaglethis thread is the first time i ever heard of it, so i don't caret. washington chad
>>22105534>Sometimes a plumpy is just what the Dr ordered.I wish there was a fast food chain called Doctor Dog that sold big hot dogs and had this as their slogan>>22105587I’m meh oh Kroger but I’ve been pleased they let the Fred Meyer stores keep their personality
>>22105037I'll go to Weis instead, or the Green Dragon if I don't mind driving a bit further.
>>22105648>the Green Dragon
Kroger used customer data gathered from Kroger loyalty cards to see what customers buy most often, eliminate those brands, replace them with (inferior) Kroger brands, and charge the same if not more.Fuck kroger.
>>22105845tbf, they alerted to me to being food poisoned by them because they tracked an order I made which had e. coli. Granted, it was a couple of weeks after the fact and I'd already (literally) shat the bed, but it was neat to see that.
>>22105850>order*purchase
>>22105037They linked up!? Need it or keep it?
>>22105037Kroger is the worst fucking grocery store ever. It’s just absolute dog shit but they try to sell it as a fancy establishment. Don’t even get me started on their stupid little globohomo cartoon commercials.
>>22105902The one I go to still pushes the covid jabs over the intercom. >>22105536If enough people start ordering their groceries online, it might make a market for those items like produce and meat that people like the pick out for themselves. We get most of our produce from a fruit stand during the warmer months but during the winter have to use the grocery store.
>>22105912>If enough people start ordering their groceries onlineThis doesn't make sense. Economies of scale would absolutely reduce and consolidate these types of outlets to large chains. Online anything doesn't help anyone.
>>22105946People want to pick out their own produce and sometimes meat. Can't do that when ordering online. If people order their other items online, that opens up an opportunity for local meat and produce shops to compete.
>>22105862ironic brainrot is still brainrot
>>22105959I just don't have a good feeling about online anything. I don't see people saying "I'll order staples/dry goods online but get in my car & stop at 5 different locales for meat, fruit, produce, etc." I see online ordering as just more reason to homogenize all competitions and market diversity into a single source. If today's Krogers, et al can shift their business to 90% peapod online ordering, it gives them enough reason to simply shutter their stores and you have to do all your grocery shopping on an app.
>>22105983You have to admit it's still very funny
>>22106024nah i'm not autistic and think something is funny even after hearing it for the 10,000th time
>>22105078No one wants to live in Ohio. They're all stuck there.
>>22106190That's arguable and not relevant even if it were true
>>22105037Why does this story require an AI generated title image?
>>22106160>he doesn't sometimes whisper "benis" to himself and giggle
>>22105902I used to work at a Kroger store. The incompetence goes all the way to the executive level.
>>22106259How often did you interact with the executives that you can make this claim? You worked in the central offices? Not exaclty "a store."
I already experienced loss in the mid 2000's.
>>22106196What were you expecting for this kind of story?
>>22106271NTA and I've never worked at Kroger, the headquarters nor a store, but their website has been falling apart lately. Based on both my time working in the HQ and stores of two other grocery chains, plus two decades of software development experience (sorry, none at Nintendo), I can confidently say they've fired or lost all of their competent webdevs and replaced them with morons that don't understand the tech at all and are pasting in layers upon layers of patches to hold together something they never could have built in the first place. Doubt that mismanagement is restricted just to the IT department but I do not have any actual inside information.
>>22105043You're first in line.
