A giant grocery merger will send “inflation” through the roof

The Kroger-Albertson’s merger will trigger massive price-hikes.

5 min readOct 17, 2022

A brightly lit grocery aisle; at its terminus, looming out from behind the frame, is the upper torso and head of Goya’s ‘Saturn Devouring His Children.’ In the foreground is a dancing ‘Rich Uncle Pennybags’ from the game Monopoly; he is brandishing a grim reaper’s scythe and his features are skull-like.

Sometimes it’s hard to know why prices are going up. Between the oil shock, a tight employment market and the climate polycrisis, is it even possible to tell if companies are using the widespread belief in inflation to hike prices? Uh, yeah, as it turns…

A giant grocery merger will send “inflation” through the roof

The Kroger-Albertson’s merger will trigger massive price-hikes.

Written by Cory Doctorow