Ethical Consumerism

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Kroger said it plans to lower grocery prices by $1 billion if federal regulators approve the proposed $25 billion merger with Albertsons (www.aier.org)

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I don’t know about y’all, but I will not ever be going shopping here.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is where we're at now, corporations are issuing demands to the government, and the government is appeasing them.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

Sounds like extortion to me. Revoke their licenses to do business until they replace their C-suite.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We passed that when the government order Microsoft to break up.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

huh?

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Replied to wrong comment. Someone else said something about now the corps are giving orders to the government. My response was that when MS was ordered to be ask up, they more or less said "nope"