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el gato malo's avatar

consumer sovereignty will reassert itself.

this idiocy has gone too far into the mainstream and people do not want it.

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blue horizons's avatar

Hope so, Gato. Worrisome to see the rapid loss of retail diversity, the mergers of chains, others on the brink of bankruptcy. Still seeing talk of Kroger and Safeway/Albertsons merging and the owner of the latter, Cerberus Capital, also floating the acquisition of Sprouts. Cerberus mentioned this weekend in WSJ as one of the entities ramping up foreclosure threats from recent resurrections of "zombie" second mortgages. Appropriate Cerberus being the 3-headed dog guarding the gates of hell. What a name!

Plus, sky high inflation in every sector.

Consumer death by a thousand cuts?

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