Yeah kinda, but they’ve really ramped it up, they used to only copy like one variety of an item but now they’ll just copy the whole product line and put them in similar looking boxes.
Here I thought Kroger owned Safeway. Turns out that merger was actually blocked. Albertsons owns Safeway and the merger between Albertsons and Kroger was blocked in Dec 2024.
Isn’t that every big chain though? Safeway does the same thing
Yeah kinda, but they’ve really ramped it up, they used to only copy like one variety of an item but now they’ll just copy the whole product line and put them in similar looking boxes.
Here I thought Kroger owned Safeway. Turns out that merger was actually blocked. Albertsons owns Safeway and the merger between Albertsons and Kroger was blocked in Dec 2024.
Even if it had gone through, the practice was being done before that date. My point is that Kroger is not unique