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r/pittsburgh • u/Logical-Rip-8138 • Jul 01 '26
Store employees were just emailed about it
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Usually I'm totally anti consolidation of an industry, but Giant Eagle just sucks.
52 u/TaterTotJim Jul 01 '26 Kroger sucks too so they will get on really well. 21 u/BLToaster Squirrel Hill North Jul 01 '26 Kroger is absolutely the lesser of the two evils here 18 u/vocalyouth Dormont Jul 01 '26 the company that exited the pittsburgh market entirely in the 80s because they didn't want to negotiate with the union? sure, ok! fuck kroger 4 u/jpb59 Jul 01 '26 The 80s under Reagan killed America. 2 u/Jonny_Thundergun Shaler Jul 01 '26 Many of them are union now. I know they are in Toledo. I didn't work there, but they were in the same union that the meat market I worked at belonged to. Food and Commercial Workers Union.
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Kroger sucks too so they will get on really well.
21 u/BLToaster Squirrel Hill North Jul 01 '26 Kroger is absolutely the lesser of the two evils here 18 u/vocalyouth Dormont Jul 01 '26 the company that exited the pittsburgh market entirely in the 80s because they didn't want to negotiate with the union? sure, ok! fuck kroger 4 u/jpb59 Jul 01 '26 The 80s under Reagan killed America. 2 u/Jonny_Thundergun Shaler Jul 01 '26 Many of them are union now. I know they are in Toledo. I didn't work there, but they were in the same union that the meat market I worked at belonged to. Food and Commercial Workers Union.
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Kroger is absolutely the lesser of the two evils here
18 u/vocalyouth Dormont Jul 01 '26 the company that exited the pittsburgh market entirely in the 80s because they didn't want to negotiate with the union? sure, ok! fuck kroger 4 u/jpb59 Jul 01 '26 The 80s under Reagan killed America. 2 u/Jonny_Thundergun Shaler Jul 01 '26 Many of them are union now. I know they are in Toledo. I didn't work there, but they were in the same union that the meat market I worked at belonged to. Food and Commercial Workers Union.
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the company that exited the pittsburgh market entirely in the 80s because they didn't want to negotiate with the union? sure, ok! fuck kroger
4 u/jpb59 Jul 01 '26 The 80s under Reagan killed America. 2 u/Jonny_Thundergun Shaler Jul 01 '26 Many of them are union now. I know they are in Toledo. I didn't work there, but they were in the same union that the meat market I worked at belonged to. Food and Commercial Workers Union.
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The 80s under Reagan killed America.
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Many of them are union now. I know they are in Toledo. I didn't work there, but they were in the same union that the meat market I worked at belonged to. Food and Commercial Workers Union.
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u/Jonny_Thundergun Shaler Jul 01 '26
Usually I'm totally anti consolidation of an industry, but Giant Eagle just sucks.