#albertson's

[onlytiktoks]

Pictured above is the companies kroger owns, and the companies albertsons owns. All the companies they would own if the merger didn't fail.

And while Albertson's claims it's unrelated to the failed merger, they are already closing stores and making 87 people unemployed .

[paradoxcase]

So I have been basically never moving my money out of my old jobs' 401ks because honestly job upheaval is so bad in this industry now, and a few days ago I got an email from an old job's 401k that the company was shutting down the 401k and I had to move my money out of it. So now I'm doing all the nonsense of getting a personal IRA set up and so forth

But I was curious about why this had happened, so I googled for news about the company, and yup, they have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and are getting bought out by one of their former customers. Something that is still relevant to me about all of this is that what this company did was build and operate robotic micro-fulfillment centers for online grocery ordering. Their biggest customer when I was working there was Albertson's, which also owns Safeway and I think possibly some other big-name stores, but the former customer that bought them out was Woolworth's, a grocery chain in Australia. That means that the code that runs all of those micro-fulfillment centers now belongs to Woolworth's, and Woolworth's is probably unlikely to be interested in continuing to operate micro-fulfillment centers belonging to Albertson's, or other US grocery stores. I know for a fact that when I had been ordering groceries online from my local Safeway, they were in fact running their fulfillment robot off the code I worked on at that company, and during that time their online ordering system was actually amazing, and now they won't be able to do that anymore. My order last week was missing about $35 worth of stuff, which I did get refunded (and got a credit for the hassle, thanks Safeway), but I wonder now if grocery delivery is going to get noticeably more shitty for me because of this

[nobodyhad2020vision]

The Kroger Albertson's merger is dead!

[spotlightstory]

1970's Piggly Wiggly Grocery Ad ground beef 3 lbs for $1 pork roast 29 cents per pound Charmin 4 rolls toilet paper for 29 cents

Googled 1980's 1990's 2000's grocery store ads and I got lots of grocery store photos and a repeat of vintage ads from 60's and 70's. I think that's strange.

Kroger is the largest supermarket operator in North America. Albertson's is the second largest.

Will the feds block a grocery megamerger? Kroger and Albertsons will soon find out | Jan 2024 NPR

The Kroger Co. operates 2,719 locations:

Supermarkets – Kroger, Ralphs, Dillons, Smith’s, King Soopers, Fry’s, QFC, City Market, Owen’s, Jay C, Pay Less, Baker’s, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Pick ‘n Save, Metro Market, Mariano’s

Multi-department stores – Fred Meyer

Dillons Marketplace, Fry’s Marketplace, King Soopers Marketplace, Kroger Marketplace, Smith’s Marketplace

Price-impact warehouse stores – Food 4 Less, Foods Co

[haute-lifestyle-com]

CNBC's Sara Eisen spoke exclusively today with Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen after the Federal Trade Commission sued to block the mega merger with Albertson's, arguing it would create a monopoly and ultimately be harmful to consumers

[unsolicited-opinions]

Mood

Amy Albertson

Kanye releases a song called “Heil H**tler”. Mosab Abu Toha, who denied hostages were abducted on Oct 7th, wins a Pulitzer Prize. Students occupy the Columbia library in the name of terrorism. A student at Temple orders bottle service with a sign that says “F*ck the Jews”, and a fund is created to support him. Oh, yea, but the Jews are just overreacting about antisemitism.

[diesaur]

[flowerbloom-arts]

A fine selection of the most terrible (/affectionate) women in Genderswapped Springfield that nobody asked for (Dr. Nicole Riviera is there too 🩵)

[pseudoscorpionida]

[ LeNunzio week day 2: COSPLAY ]

I know Jeffrey Albertson (the Comic Book Guy) and his wife (Kumiko Nakamura Albertson) are a predictable choice for Lenunzio, but I still think it turned out kinda cute. And it's probably a cheap enough cosplay for their broke asses to afford.

Josh did his best to get Pete to like the bucket! :)

[tithsokphanny31]

Snacks from the 2000s

[onlytiktoks]

Oh, and for no reason...

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[tikkunolamresistance]

Amy Albertson talks about Hyunju "Juju" Chang! the award winning journalist (and current anchor of nightlife) converted to judaism in the late 90s after marrying her current husband. she’s known as a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation and as an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations. she is the first korean american host of GMA, and has one 3 emmy’s!! jewish excellence everywhere we participate 😌

also if you’re unaware of any albertson she is a chinese american jew and steadfast activist! i personally appreciate how she highlights the intersections of being chinese and jewish while in an interfaith family. highly recommend checking out some of her work on insta or tik tok.

[citizenscreen]

Jack Albertson (June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981)

[lastoneout]

then again I truly am unsure if anyone has ever actually felt happy while inside a grocery store so who knows

[mentallyregarded]

the funny