Just like sprint/t mobile. They waited over a decade for the correct pieces of shit to control the ftc before even attempting the buyout, and promised that it would keep lower prices/competition.

Instead, competition has stagnated.

They bought all the locals.

You speak like our regulators aren't bought and paid for as well.

Oh man, someboy who still believes the System is actually meant to work for the general populace.

That's so sweet.

Same here and it’s the only store that is within *biking distance that doesn’t require dodging lifted magat trucks and risking your life to get to. I’m done though.

I wish, but I think they are predicting this. I live in a pretty chill and rural area. Shop lifting has never been an issue here and most people know the employees by name. Within the last couple months they have added a fuck ton of cameras and automatic brakes for all the carts. Went from barely ever having someone on the self checkout to having multiple people always watching with a top view camera on every checkout and two cameras on both sides. If you buy something too big to fit on the checkout area the machine calls an attendant over immediately even if you scanned it. It feels straight up dystopian in there and it makes it so stressful to go there. If it wasn't the only grocery store around me within a 40 mile radius I'd go somewhere else in a heartbeat.

The employees obviously hate it too and think it's just as fucking ridiculous as we all do. Last time I went, this high school girl looked like she was about to lose her shit as she went from checkout to checkout scanning her badge nonstop.

That’s the first time I’ve ever heard someone describing Aldi as a place to pay slightly more for something.

Where I’m from, Aldi was the absolute cheapest place to buy cheap groceries and their stores were super nasty and dirty.

I love Aldi! Those All Dressed chips are so good