The line at #Kroger is crazy. 8 PM no checkers. Self checkout only. Lines way back into the aisles. So much for picking up a single tub of cottage cheese. I blame Biden.

And it begins! I guess #Hersheys #Cocoa has already fallen victim to #Trump's import #taxes and #PanicBuying. #Kroger is out (come to find out, it's not even listed in the app at any local stores) so I went by #Walmart and they're out too.

Went to #Kroger in #Tennessee , and while the #PriceOfEggs is still up significantly since the start of #AmericanCarnage2.0, I did find avocados from #Mexico with just the right softness, and great looking tomatoes from #Canada - where they know how to grow ‘em naturally!

#BuyCanadian to end the #TradeWar quickly! #ElbowsUp

Remember folks, Don't #Boycott.... #Boycutt . Kick the bad #corporate actors in the #ProfitMargins. Patronize small #local #businesses first and then non #MAGA supporting #corporations like: #Costco #Kroger #Winco in the #PNW, etc. Together we can #StarveTheBeast.

After work I had a wonderful visit to #Villainous Gaming Pub.
Now to head home, stopping at #Kroger for food and fuel.
Ruthven the Rav4 is informing me that he has 17 miles left. The drive home is 4.2 miles.

The CEO and complicit shareholders of #Kroger are making the case for more Luigi ‘s.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2SNTWu4/

Everyday people are constantly facing violent crime in the form of wage theft. Criminals like Jeff Bezos can longer be allowed to roam our streets

February 2025 Skirmish https://www.labornotes.org/2025/02/first-skirmish-ten-thousand-grocery-workers-strike-kroger

Essential Workers For Democracy
https://www.ew4d.org/blog/solidarity-pledge

UFCW Local 7 vs KS
https://www.ufcw7.org/l7press/king-soopers-files-frivolous-lawsuit-in-attempt-to-silence-workers-voices-during-strike

Colorado
https://www.grocerydive.com/news/kroger-albertsons-colorado-attorney-general-merger/735393/

#frombelow #groceryworkers #labormovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #Unions #strikes #Teamsters
#UFCW vs #Kroger #Albertsons #KingSoopers

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/unionized-colorado-grocery-store-workers-two-week-strike-thursday

Friends in the #Denver metro area, and along the Front Range from #Cheyenne to #Pueblo, take note. Please don't cross the #picket line.

Many of my friends have worked at #KingSoopers over the decades. It used to be completely unionized, and a good place to work. #Kroger bought it out in the 1980s, and has steadily ground down the #unions ever since. I honestly don't know how much of a difference this #strike will make.

I do know the battle is worth fighting, and those who fight it are worth supporting. As convenient as King Soopers is around here, there are other places to shop. Do what you can, when you can, and maybe things will get better someday.

This week in the Weekly News Roundup, we might actually get a true Linux Phone, and Kroger teams up with Microsoft to target you in the store. Also, Facebook blocks stories about Linux.
#weeklynewsroundup #linuxphone #kroger

8:00p EST

All Articles:
https://switchedtolinux.com/news/will-we-finally-get-a-linux-phone-here

Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and 13 colleagues wrote to the CEO of the supermarket behemoth #Kroger in November about electronic price tags (often called #electronic #shelf #labels or #ESLs ).
These digital displays allow companies to change prices automatically from a mobile app.
Tlaib warned that this so-called “#dynamic #pricing” permits retailers to adjust prices based on their whims.
Just as #Uber raises prices during storms or rush hour, retailers like Kroger use ESLs to adjust prices based on factors like time of day or the weather.
Supermarkets could conceivably mine a shopper’s personal data to set prices as high as possible.
“My concern is that these tools will be abused in the pursuit of profit, surging prices on essential goods in areas with fewer and fewer grocery stores,” Tlaib wrote.
In August, Senators Elizabeth #Warren and Bob #Casey wrote to Kroger raising similar concerns about #price #gouging.
Noting that the company has already implemented the technology in hundreds of stores across the county, they warned that
“ESLs may help Kroger extract maximum profits from consumers at a time when…high grocery prices are a leading concern among Americans who are concerned about inflation.”
Warren and Casey also voiced concern about Kroger’s partnership with Microsoft to install #facial-#recognition technology in stores,
which could be used to identify individual customers:
When a shopper approaches the shelf, she would see a price calibrated specifically for her.
The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile.
Retailers could use shopper data to charge higher prices to those who can afford to pay more, but since stores do not have to disclose who is making pricing decisions or why,
the senators worry that shoppers on a budget are particularly vulnerable.
“It is outrageous that, as families continue to struggle to pay to put food on the table, grocery giants like Kroger continue to roll out #surge #pricing and other corporate #profiteering schemes,” they wrote

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/retail-grocery-automation-esl-kroger/

"It’s unclear whether Kroger will respond to the lawmakers. The company ignored a prior letter from Representative Tlaib and previously dismissed concerns about ESLs, saying that the negative effects of the technology have been exaggerated. Meanwhile, other chains are moving swiftly to install dynamic pricing technology. Walmart plans to install the tags in 2,300 stores by 2026. The nation’s largest retailer emphasized the benefit to shoppers: “This efficiency means we can spend more time assisting customers.”

The experiences of workers cast doubt on such claims. I spoke to William Knight, a 10-year veteran of the grocery industry who spends their off hours crafting cyberpunk stories inspired by the novel Neuromancer. (Knight’s latest is a dystopian tale about an America ruled by just three corporations.) On the job, the 31-year-old has often found themselves on the other side of the crisis that Bagley described. Working as a cashier and maintenance person in a Utah chain, Knight was regularly conscripted to work in e-commerce, which put them behind on their official duties. “I’m not necessarily against [automation], but a new technology should be regulated. It’s too young to be pushed to everyone and should stay in Silicon Valley,” they said."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/retail-grocery-automation-esl-kroger/

#Kroger had this hyperchungus #vampire #potato, which sucks the blood of other potatoes for its own sustenance and embiggening. I think this is the largest fucking spud I've ever seen, so naturally I had to get it. Normal potato and soda can for scale. #food

Since this merger was going to mean that pretty much every major chain grocery store within about 40 miles of my little town would have become Kroger, I'm thrilled to see it falling apart. At least now I still have some choice in WHICH devil I decide to deal with. There are small chain and indie choices, but they all have limitations. I do shop there, but to fit my restricted diet, compromises are made.

#kroger #albertsons #groceries #merger
https://apnews.com/article/kroger-albertsons-79e366723d7287b2df71d96730fba76e

Albertsons-Kroger merger no more. Yay!

... and as expected, it has turned into a mudslinging match between them.

#Albertsons #Kroger

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/albertsons-sues-kroger-backs-25b-merger-after-courts/story?id=116673402

"Albertsons sues Kroger and ends failed grocery megamerger"

If you can't mate with them, sue them???

#USNews #Kroger #Albertsons #GroceryStores #merger #lawsuit

https://wbhm.org/npr-story/albertsons-sues-kroger-and-ends-failed-grocery-megamerger/