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Not even close. Combining all those brands results in a 13.5% market share.

by travoc 3y ago

dragonwriter 3y ago
Groceries aren't a single national market, and its quite likely that such a merger would both create both monopolies and monopsonies. Its also quite likely that the big grocery merger won't happen as planned for that reason.
loeg 3y ago
Albertsons + Kroger is like 90% of the market in Seattle, where I live, though.
- unregistereddev 3y ago
  It's very location-dependent. In my midwest metro I believe they'd be less than 5% of the market. I'm sure Albertsons and Kroger each have local monopolies in different regions.
  - plagiarist 3y ago
    I think they have a good point, though. I would like the laws to prevent a single corporation from being 90% of all groceries for an entire state even if they aren't anything close to a monopoly from a national perspective.
- dublinben 3y ago
  That doesn't seem likely. According to this source, Frey Meyer (18.4%) + Safeway (17.3%) would be the clear market leader with over 35%, but there's still robust competition from Costco, Walmart, and others. https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2023/04/24/seattle-favorite-grocery-store-fred-meyer https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2023/04/24/seattle-favor...
  - loeg 3y ago
    Note that Fred Meyer (18.4) and QFC (14.1) are already both owned by Kroger. So that would be 49.8% post-merger, per those figures. These figures seem to be for the Seattle metro rather than the city itself. Costco might be a competitor in some sense but it doesn't serve the area I live -- the nearest one is a 45 minute drive away. WinCos are even further away -- they serve some of the suburbs, but not the city of Seattle. Ditto Walmart. I've never heard of or seen Campeon. Whole Foods / PCC exist, but are expensive. Trader Joe's is fine but not really a full grocery store.
- rendang 3y ago
  With the remainder being made up of Trader Joe's and ... ... Amazon
  - loeg 3y ago
    Yeah although TJ's is like 6% of the marketshare of the big two (and Whole Foods / Amazon is ~5%) (see sibling comments).

Not even close. Combining all those brands results in a 13.5% market share.

by travoc 3y ago

Not even close. Combining all those brands results in a 13.5% market share.

Groceries aren't a single national market, and its quite likely that such a merger would both create both monopolies and monopsonies. Its also quite likely that the big grocery merger won't happen as planned for that reason.

loeg 3y ago

Albertsons + Kroger is like 90% of the market in Seattle, where I live, though.

unregistereddev 3y ago
It's very location-dependent. In my midwest metro I believe they'd be less than 5% of the market. I'm sure Albertsons and Kroger each have local monopolies in different regions.
- plagiarist 3y ago
  I think they have a good point, though. I would like the laws to prevent a single corporation from being 90% of all groceries for an entire state even if they aren't anything close to a monopoly from a national perspective.
dublinben 3y ago
That doesn't seem likely. According to this source, Frey Meyer (18.4%) + Safeway (17.3%) would be the clear market leader with over 35%, but there's still robust competition from Costco, Walmart, and others. https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2023/04/24/seattle-favorite-grocery-store-fred-meyer https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2023/04/24/seattle-favor...
- loeg 3y ago
  Note that Fred Meyer (18.4) and QFC (14.1) are already both owned by Kroger. So that would be 49.8% post-merger, per those figures. These figures seem to be for the Seattle metro rather than the city itself. Costco might be a competitor in some sense but it doesn't serve the area I live -- the nearest one is a 45 minute drive away. WinCos are even further away -- they serve some of the suburbs, but not the city of Seattle. Ditto Walmart. I've never heard of or seen Campeon. Whole Foods / PCC exist, but are expensive. Trader Joe's is fine but not really a full grocery store.
rendang 3y ago
With the remainder being made up of Trader Joe's and ... ... Amazon
- loeg 3y ago
  Yeah although TJ's is like 6% of the marketshare of the big two (and Whole Foods / Amazon is ~5%) (see sibling comments).