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This week on CounterSpin:
The country’s largest and second-largest grocery store chains want to merge and, surprising no one, they claim that giving them that tremendous market power will lead to lower prices, better quality food, and better conditions for workers. The FTC says, hold on a second, how does that square with on-the-record statements that Kroger is currently raising the prices of things like eggs and milk above inflation rates, simply because they can get away with it — a practice known as price-gouging? The response, dutifully reported in corporate news media is: We won’t do that anymore! And if you try to stop us, that’s illegal!
It could hardly be clearer that the public — consumers and workers — needs advocates willing to go behind talking points to enforceable law. Freddy Brewster is a writer and journalist; his report on the possible Kroger/Albertsons megamerger, its implications, and the behind the scenes shenanigans attendant to it, appears on LeverNews.com.
Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press coverage of the Golan Heights bombing.
The post Freddy Brewster on Kroger-Albertsons merger appeared first on KPFA.
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This week on CounterSpin:
The country’s largest and second-largest grocery store chains want to merge and, surprising no one, they claim that giving them that tremendous market power will lead to lower prices, better quality food, and better conditions for workers. The FTC says, hold on a second, how does that square with on-the-record statements that Kroger is currently raising the prices of things like eggs and milk above inflation rates, simply because they can get away with it — a practice known as price-gouging? The response, dutifully reported in corporate news media is: We won’t do that anymore! And if you try to stop us, that’s illegal!
It could hardly be clearer that the public — consumers and workers — needs advocates willing to go behind talking points to enforceable law. Freddy Brewster is a writer and journalist; his report on the possible Kroger/Albertsons megamerger, its implications, and the behind the scenes shenanigans attendant to it, appears on LeverNews.com.
Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press coverage of the Golan Heights bombing.
The post Freddy Brewster on Kroger-Albertsons merger appeared first on KPFA.
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