Their CEO makes 21 million a year or something. Go relentelessly bully their overpaid PR psychos.
It’s like they saw amazons disaster and thought: that’s great! We should do that too!
New rule: if your industry cannot function while paying its workers a decent wage, it gets nationalized
New rule:
ifyour industrycannot function while paying its workers a decent wage, itgets nationalized:marx-ok:
These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.
Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
- A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
- Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
- Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
- Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
- Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
- Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
- Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
- Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.
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Imagine living in a world that thinks its normal for a government to prop up failing businesses because the serve some socially necessary function, but not to do it by nationalizing them.
kroger/fred meyer is also the one that called the cops to guard a dumpster when they had a power outage and dumped all their frozen food during a snowstorm in portland. kroger/fred meyer is also the one that got caught classifying women into lower paying jobs that had the same duties as men's jobs
fun fact: kroger owns a chain in pretty much every part of the country, that's why your local king soopers/fred meyers/whatever has shitty infantilizing branding now
In Atlanta most of the Kroger's have names as landmarks, and downtown there's murder Kroger, on account of all the murders.
Anyways like 5 years back gentrification hit like a sack of bricks the rebuilt the place all fancy-like but people kept calling it Murder Kroger. Kroger Corporate got Big Mad about it and wasted a bit of money on a campaign against the name after somebody tagged their new sign with blood drops.
My partner worked on the opening of the gentrified murder Kroger: it was around Halloween so she decorated her program area with skeletons and the like. Got reprimanded by Kroger corporate for invoking memories.
it's the one near midtown, not downtown. and yeah i've had libs irl tell me i'm being problematic by calling it murder kroger and not "beltline kroger", including atlanta DSA libs
houston was the same. disco kroger in particular was tight
You tell this story here before? I feel like I remember this... but things being what they are I'm never too sure if I'm really remembering something or it's just something irony-poisoned-brains naturally assume happened.
I know someone who knows one of the heirs to the Kroger fortune. They live in like a 70 room mansion and blow money like it's going out of style.
Before covid popped off, I’d snag bites (okay handfuls (okay hoodie pocketfuls)) from the bulk food section at the Kroger by my house. Like dried fruit and chocolate covered berries and shit. Sorry workers, your hero pay done ended up in my tummy thanks to their razor-thin margins.
Kroger made $2.6 BILLION AFTER TAX in the year ended 1/30/2021
