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After the n-th supermarket merger in my small town making every major supermarket in town a subsidiary of Albertsons, the inventory management was so bad that e
by dv_dt 3y ago
After the n-th supermarket merger in my small town making every major supermarket in town a subsidiary of Albertsons, the inventory management was so bad that empty shelves started and continue to be an occurrence. Worse, the fresh produce declined in both quality and selection. But hey, the Kroger-Albertsons merger is before us... I hope the antitrust analysis blocks it, but really it's already too late.
- WalterBright 3y agoI've lived in small towns. Part of being in a small town is there isn't a smorgasbord of businesses in the same business and competing with each other. We'd wait until we had a long enough list to make the drive worthwhile, and then drive to the Big City to take care of the list.
- dv_dt 3y agoOh the town is big enough that there are 4-5 supermarket sites. It’s just that it’s vons, pavilions, Albertsons, etc all owned by the same parent company which has made the choice for all of us that we don’t need to actually fill shelves with items or maintain a quality of product. In that respect, late stage Capitalism looks a lot like poorly formed Communism where a small cabal of people make wide impact decisions for others with no feedback.
- WalterBright 3y agoIf they were not serving their customers, a competitor will emerge.