They approve everything. Look deeper in this merger. Albertsons is near bankruptcy and Wal-Mart, Amazon have too much buying power. Will save jobs in the long run.
You know that most of Congress will be replaced along with most of the Governors because they went along with the 2020 election results. This went before the Supreme Court. Look up Raland J.Brunson vs.Alma S.Adams, et,al.,
Yeah, but is he a Ted Cruz? Big speeches but never does anything... We have to fight back we're losing badly. So raise taxes on billionaires, endowments strip PACs tax exempt status and limit salaries make it so 95% has to go directly to causes not consultants and salaries, give them a wealth tax, tax all ceo comp as income (including stock options) plus capital gains tax on stock options, lower congressional pay to average salary in the US, cannot own private homes anymore, put them in dorms, no off site meetings with lobbyists at all can't even say hello in the street, social security tax on incomes over $400K have to pay full boat plus 5% all the way back to dollar one (22%tax rate). Full transparency on all NGO's, PACs household limit of $7500 to PACs... Give them what they want and it'll help us.
@BikeLion agreed JH and TG are quite young... something the GOP NEEDS much more of in their greater political culture. To be fair, I don't disagree with your concern for division amongst the party, but don't you think DT will be getting too old? Basic actuarial estimations would likely predict next 6 years will include a significant risk of declined physical/health capacity for DT. A man of his size, age, diet, and lifestyle is almost guaranteed to see a major decline in health in this window...
@@MrRinopolis - The problem though is that, even if you or I might think that some other candidate would be better suited to the job than DT, there's a certain percentage of the base that will *only* vote for him....At least if he's "dumped" in favor of someone else and he's not endorsing the new candidate.....What percentage is that? I don't know exactly. It's certainly not the majority, but I would guess somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of his voters, so it'd be large enough make his replacement likely to lose.
We Missourians are all so very thankful & relieved that Senator Hawley replaced the horrible witch Claire. Even if he had been a run-of-the-mill do nothing senator we would have been infinitely better off. But what a blessing he is such a great senator.
If this merger goes through three of the five grocery stores in my town will be owned by the same company giving them a monopoly. None of the employees at those three stores will have any bargaining power at all and it will destroy any chances the other stores have of getting any benefits upgraded because they'll be competing with a union that doesn't have to give the employees anything because they're the Monopoly in town. And I suspect that the prices at the two lower-priced stores will go up to the Kroger level making everything more expensive. It's too big. None of The Independents in our town will have a chance. The only other choice we'll have would be Walmart and that's a giant chain so not much of a choice at all.
That's what they want, they plan on these ESG standards to choke out any competition, to where a handful of corporations own everything so they can dominate all of humanity, this is bigger than just merging grocery stores, and black rock is behind all of this with the support of the WEF, IMF and the U.N.
Same here. Kroger (Marianos) and Albertsons (Jewel) are right across the street from each other in my town. Right now, I can only survive by going to both and buying mainly those items which are on sale. No doubt Kroger will raise prices when it becomes the only dog in town. Their statement that they won't close any stores is misleading. They can't operate two stores across the street from each other. Their statement that they will be able to compete with Costco and Walmart doesn't fly. People who shop at Kroger/Albertsons don't shop at Costco/Walmart. The want a full service traditional grocery instead. Our Kroger sells a lot of upscale stuff like fancy cheese and has an olive bar. It actually seems like it's trying to compete with stores like Whole Foods. This is all greed & lies. Higher prices and being stuck with bad customer service will be the only result.
Walmart has just as much grass fed beef and organic stuff, and WAY cheaper. Plus i can get other stuff there while i am at it. Walmart is doing some MAJOR changes. So many more items are Made in the USA.
"That's Extraordinary" says Hawley. Yep extraordinary to the point of sheer disbelief..These people called to answer the Senate must really believe their own bs in order to say it so eloquently.
I drove semi trucks as an employee of Safeway Stores Incorporated for thirty five years in Seattle division.Two years before retiring Albertsons took over Safeway. No big deal,but when I heard about Kroger taking over Albertsons and everything under their tentacles I was shocked. Kroger was the reason the Teamsters got so powerful. Kroger was hell on wheels in the nineteen twenties and thirties. Poor working conditions Union busting and everything under the sun. They will soon be reaching monopoly status. I think they should be looked at very closely. I was a proud member of Teamsters local 174 for forty years.
The only thing I remember about my last union job was all the "vote Democrat" flyers that accumulated in my trash can. Well, and that chunk of pay they took from me weekly. 🤣
I'd actually like to keep him in the Senate and get him as the leader sooner in '24. He'd be more effective there. Being POTUS isn't always what is best for the republic. Having a great conservative Senate leader along with a great conservative House Speaker is better. I'd almost have rather have Hawley as leader and Biggs as Speaker, and keep dopy ass Biden or karmala as prez in '24, than Trump as prez but Schumer and Jeffries in charge of Congress. Think about their roles and the legislative possibilities and you will see what I mean.
Why is his state on this list? Here are the 10 states with the higest rates of domestic violence: Kentucky - 45.30% North Carolina - 43.90% Nevada - 43.80% Alaska - 43.30% Arizona - 42.60% Washington - 42.60% Idaho - 42.50% Missouri - 41.70%
@@JJ-iq5cv What in the hell does that have to do with anything? You leftists always have to bring up a point that has nothing to do with what anyone was talking about, so that you could either draw attention to yourself, or deflect from the real issue. Everyone's wise to it now so you may as well stop.
@@christophersmith2470 Why would anyone want this guy to be POTUS if his state is such a mess? Why doesn't he do something to help his state? That's the real question.
I suspect that if they are looking to a bank for a major loan, this is why the ESG. The banks are doing business based on a credit score, in more ways than one kind.
YES! I remember my orientation training for Tom Thumb.. essentially forced me to "acknowledge my unconscious bias" there is no answer to say no. I felt personally attacked.
If The Proposed Railroad Strike Happens on Dec. 8TH, It Definitely Won't Be That Much Longer! Beijing Joe has Already Crippled The Trucking Industry the past 2yrs, While He Has Drained The Strategic Oil Reserves To Record Lows, and can No Longer Keep Fuel & Energy Prices Artificially Low, which means they Will Rise Exponentially. If that RAILROAD Strike Happens, The Entire Supply Chain Will Virtually Collapse!
They purposely don’t know - it’s called “plausible deniability.” It allows them to lie - just a bunch of semantics. Biden’s administration excels in this - the only thing they all do well.
How much of that waste, given to the food banks, etc., was used as a tax deduction on tax reported earnings? What kind of accounting was taking place to promote your, “fundamental purpose“? A Representative of FTC should be in the hearing to refer to what these guys try to push off on them, while not answering the question. As it is, “I’ll get back to you on that”, just means we will never hear more about it till it happens, maybe!
When asked a specific yes or no answer Mr McMullen plays with words fooling no one. Senator Hawley sees the lies coming from McMullen. Great job Senator Hawley.
I'm curious, don't these execs from Kroger (NYSE: KR) and Albertson (NYST: ACI) work FOR THE SHAREHOLDERS? Isn't their fiduciary responsibilities to the shareholders? I, for one, cringe whenever I hear talk of "inclusive" especially in terms of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion". People being "promoted and rewarded based on their success and ability to be a leader ..." doesn't mean a damned thing. How about doing the job for which they were hired and meeting/exceeding goals, and not what ethnic group or gender to which they identify as being used for measuring "success"? All these bs terms (E.G.: Diversity and Inclusion) are being pushed by the Feds on all companies, large and small. Big brother is selling cowpatties as an absolute necessity for corporate success ... and they're not. Product quality, customer satisfaction, and field support will determine a company's success or failure. Just sayin'.
“there is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception fraud.” Milton Friedman
How strategic ignorance rules the world - deliberately not knowing is the new trend allowing CEO's to avoid real accountability for their corporate misdeeds.
Imagine Senator Hawley as the next Attorney General. There would be 1000 private jets fleeing the country filled with current Democrats and ex-politicians.
I’m listening to this while on the train to picket In Front of the New School in NYC after 25 years working and watching so much corruption and profit while the actual professors are 87 percent of the faculty and are all part time, paid only for the hours we are in the classroom at this expensive university making peanuts for a just b that takes many additional hours of labor that are wholly unpaid., mostly uninsured, and in a school where harassment and contract grievances are arbitrated by the university’s own employees. These conversations MATTER . We are two weeks into our strike. PAY YOUR ASSOCIATEs! No raise since 2018 and admin is 45 percent of the university’s budget, while 2000 teachers are struggling
Smart, confident, assertive, definitive, direct and fearless. Josh would make a fantastic future President. I still want Trump at this point, as this next election is likely the last election that he will be able to be taken seriously for in consideration of his age. But Josh should consider maybe a 2028 run. (Edit) The next conservative President no matter who it is, should consider Josh for the United States Attorney General. Get him in there and you would see some serious clean-up of those Hell holes we call the DOJ and FBI. We need someone in there to clean house and he seems to have exactly what it would take. Josh "Kick Ass and Take Names" Hawley.
Terms like ESG and DEI are simply fluffy words that absolutely do nothing except virtue signal. Whatever happened to "equal opportunity" and "welcoming environment" that were in place for the past 60 years since the Civil rights era? It's getting really tiring to hear this crap.
Big food chain is scary. Some few BIG food chain get a monopoly on selling food. Not good in the long run, quality goes down, and fresh food will be gone, only frozen beef/vegetable . Horrible future ahead.
Incompetence of a Federal lawsuit against you company is not a valid answer. If he doesn’t know this he cannot be trusted with anything else he might know!
The CEO of Kroeger's is a filthy liar and should be prosecuted for perjury. There is no way under the sun he was unaware of the federal lawsuit against his company settled in plaintiff's favor for being fired for their religious beliefs. Perjury plain and simple.
Scary that the CEO of a company does not know when his company is sued by the Federal government! Why does inclusion alway force the majority to abide to what the minority beleave? I don't care who loves who, or what you do with anyone else in your bedroom, but I do not need to agree with your beliefs. I respect everyone's personal decisions, but I don't have to agree with them, and should not be forced to!
Senator Hawley gets right to the point of the wierd corporate culture that presents themselves as inclusive and promoting their equity policies, as if by doing so they are pereach other. A well functioning corporation and meeting obligations to shareholders. The two are exlusive. Sen Hawley is right that they should be focused on delivering high quality reasonably priced food to everyone in the communities they serve.
This merger will be a disaster. It will create a near monopoly in the Midwest similar to Safeway's dominance on the West Coast where groceries are a lot higher due to lack of competition. Kroger purchased the independent chain Marianos just a few years ago and they immediately raised prices and customer service began to deteriorate. Bad, bad idea. Albertsons, the merger target, is a better run, slightly less expensive store and has better customer service. It will certainly be ruined.
Albertsons bought the all vons stores including where I work at and things have gone downhill for us. They are so cheap. safety is non existent anymore same with customer service. We had the best customer service and had to take a class on it when we started there. People who have started there within a few years haven't a clue what customer service is.
@@bethanyhealy4989 Sorry to hear that. But Kroger is ever worse than Albertsons when it comes to customer service. They also seem very unethical. For example, they often don't mark the sale price on the items on the shelf so that shoppers can't get the bargain unless they have a list to remind them. I think they do this on purpose.
Well being in Canada I can tell you that yea, it's absolutely a load of bullshit when only a couple companies essentially control your entire food market. Loblaws, Metro, and Sobeys essentially run the show across the country here, and our grocery prices have increased by a RIDICULOUS amount the past few years. Government is too limp to even do anything about it, and they probably don't care to because it's all just more tax revenue for them. Those companies were proven guilty of price fixing for bread and various other things a few years back and NOTHING happened to them as a result, they paid some pittance of a fine and that's it. They were recently "investigated" for price gouging and nothing came of that either. Apparently 15-25% food price increases during 8% inflation is perfectly reasonable... I say all that as someone who works for one of those companies and is in a position to see not just what we charge, but what we pay. And I can tell you without question, the increase in price outpaces the increase in cost 99 times out of 100. Year after year these guys report record breaking profits, but nah, nothing janky is going on. They claim grocery prices only went up like 7-8%, but that's only true if you average the increases across the board. Most things haven't really gone up, but the high-volume sales items? Things people buy lots of and all the time? Those go up by ridiculous leaps. Meat prices have skyrocketed in the last 5-7 years, but actual costs have almost stayed the same. Margins in the meat department in particular, I previously considered 30-35% to be extremely good, that was "high" for the most part. Now margins in that same department are upwards of 45%.... I'm all for a business making money, but when it comes to food the fact that we all need to eat to survive makes their scummy unnecessary price hikes just a whole entire load of greedy bullshit that won't stop till it all stops the hard way....
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No Mergers. No more. We are suffering with tech conglomerates. We NEED competition
Blackrock!
They approve everything. Look deeper in this merger. Albertsons is near bankruptcy and Wal-Mart, Amazon have too much buying power. Will save jobs in the long run.
Go get em Josh, so happy to have a SANE MIssouri voice in Congress!
You know that most of Congress will be replaced along with most of the Governors because they went along with the 2020 election results. This went before the Supreme Court. Look up Raland J.Brunson vs.Alma S.Adams, et,al.,
Senate.. though I wish he could be Speaker in Congress👍
Yeah, but is he a Ted Cruz? Big speeches but never does anything... We have to fight back we're losing badly. So raise taxes on billionaires, endowments strip PACs tax exempt status and limit salaries make it so 95% has to go directly to causes not consultants and salaries, give them a wealth tax, tax all ceo comp as income (including stock options) plus capital gains tax on stock options, lower congressional pay to average salary in the US, cannot own private homes anymore, put them in dorms, no off site meetings with lobbyists at all can't even say hello in the street, social security tax on incomes over $400K have to pay full boat plus 5% all the way back to dollar one (22%tax rate). Full transparency on all NGO's, PACs household limit of $7500 to PACs... Give them what they want and it'll help us.
@@McClellan71 The Senate is part of Congress is it not?
I have so much respect for Senator Hawley.
I would if he wasn't a lapdog for Israel.
😂
Delusional
@@kenteague4802Smile. Just smile.
@@kenteague4802 you apparently don’t know what the word delusional means
Josh is a brilliant interrogator and has until now been wholly underestimated....
Josh Hawley and Tulsi Gabbard for Prez and VP 2024!!! Dump Trump!
@@uhlijohn - JH and TG are both quite young, so there's no rush. Better to keep DT for now and avoid causing needless division!
@BikeLion agreed JH and TG are quite young... something the GOP NEEDS much more of in their greater political culture. To be fair, I don't disagree with your concern for division amongst the party, but don't you think DT will be getting too old? Basic actuarial estimations would likely predict next 6 years will include a significant risk of declined physical/health capacity for DT. A man of his size, age, diet, and lifestyle is almost guaranteed to see a major decline in health in this window...
Aggressive “ prosecution” is only for certain things in my opinion
@@MrRinopolis - The problem though is that, even if you or I might think that some other candidate would be better suited to the job than DT, there's a certain percentage of the base that will *only* vote for him....At least if he's "dumped" in favor of someone else and he's not endorsing the new candidate.....What percentage is that? I don't know exactly. It's certainly not the majority, but I would guess somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of his voters, so it'd be large enough make his replacement likely to lose.
Thank you for upholding the U.S. constitution, Senator Hawley.
What a CROCK! Love Josh Hawley!!!!!!
He doesn't give an F about diversity, equity, inclusion. Doing what's necessary to maintain a good ESG score.
@@ritab-c492 And that's a good thing, because ESG is not a good thing.
Let's get with it, no nonsense.
Keep these guys away from food banks. Disgusting.
Nooooo! I had boycotted Kroger's when they took MyPillow off the shelves along with WallyWorld, which left Albertson's!!👹👎
Thank you for being the one that beat the previous "Senator" that sat in your seat.
We Missourians are all so very thankful & relieved that Senator Hawley replaced the horrible witch Claire. Even if he had been a run-of-the-mill do nothing senator we would have been infinitely better off. But what a blessing he is such a great senator.
@@lauriemclean1131 We could sure use 2 of them here in AZ
If this merger goes through three of the five grocery stores in my town will be owned by the same company giving them a monopoly. None of the employees at those three stores will have any bargaining power at all and it will destroy any chances the other stores have of getting any benefits upgraded because they'll be competing with a union that doesn't have to give the employees anything because they're the Monopoly in town. And I suspect that the prices at the two lower-priced stores will go up to the Kroger level making everything more expensive. It's too big. None of The Independents in our town will have a chance. The only other choice we'll have would be Walmart and that's a giant chain so not much of a choice at all.
ALL of the major groceries in my county will be owned by Kroger or Walmart. No choices left.
That's what they want, they plan on these ESG standards to choke out any competition, to where a handful of corporations own everything so they can dominate all of humanity, this is bigger than just merging grocery stores, and black rock is behind all of this with the support of the WEF, IMF and the U.N.
Same here. Kroger (Marianos) and Albertsons (Jewel) are right across the street from each other in my town. Right now, I can only survive by going to both and buying mainly those items which are on sale. No doubt Kroger will raise prices when it becomes the only dog in town. Their statement that they won't close any stores is misleading. They can't operate two stores across the street from each other. Their statement that they will be able to compete with Costco and Walmart doesn't fly. People who shop at Kroger/Albertsons don't shop at Costco/Walmart. The want a full service traditional grocery instead. Our Kroger sells a lot of upscale stuff like fancy cheese and has an olive bar. It actually seems like it's trying to compete with stores like Whole Foods. This is all greed & lies. Higher prices and being stuck with bad customer service will be the only result.
@@Mary-uz2tz it's happening everywhere already
Walmart has just as much grass fed beef and organic stuff, and WAY cheaper. Plus i can get other stuff there while i am at it. Walmart is doing some MAJOR changes. So many more items are Made in the USA.
"That's Extraordinary" says Hawley. Yep extraordinary to the point of sheer disbelief..These people called to answer the Senate must really believe their own bs in order to say it so eloquently.
Does Josh get to ask questions of the Biden's during all those investigations? I hope so!
Oh yes, please.
He's articulate and easy to listen to which helps.
That would be awesome. Sen Hawley is Pure fire🔥
@@gayle9428 Right? He's right to the point, no bullsh*t...
No, he is a Senator, the Republicans took the House.
A scary time in our country’s existence.
Yet donkeys and unions thrive. A lot of stupid fraudulent education and subsequent voting.
Senator, we need more people like you in government. Thank you for your strong ethics and common sense!
He's a liar.
You've got to be shitting me.
@@markstevens4264 watch him run.
I drove semi trucks as an employee of Safeway Stores Incorporated for thirty five years in Seattle division.Two years before retiring Albertsons took over Safeway. No big deal,but when I heard about Kroger taking over Albertsons and everything under their tentacles I was shocked. Kroger was the reason the Teamsters got so powerful. Kroger was hell on wheels in the nineteen twenties and thirties. Poor working conditions Union busting and everything under the sun. They will soon be reaching monopoly status. I think they should be looked at very closely. I was a proud member of Teamsters local 174 for forty years.
Kroger already bought out Safeway where I am.
☝🏼
The only thing I remember about my last union job was all the "vote Democrat" flyers that accumulated in my trash can. Well, and that chunk of pay they took from me weekly. 🤣
Unions had their place 50years ago. Today its a business. A far left, corrupted business.
I was one of very few in my local that was a conservative.
Just stumblin bumblin through his answers lol Josh Hawley the shark
Thank you Josh!
Missouri is lucky to have Josh Hawley
I wish AR had a senator like this, I love watching this guy in action, can’t wait till he runs for president. Josh Hawley for President.
You are watching a future POTUS right here.
#Hawley2028
I'd actually like to keep him in the Senate and get him as the leader sooner in '24. He'd
be more effective there. Being POTUS isn't always what is best for the republic. Having
a great conservative Senate leader along with a great conservative House Speaker is
better. I'd almost have rather have Hawley as leader and Biggs as Speaker, and keep
dopy ass Biden or karmala as prez in '24, than Trump as prez but Schumer and Jeffries
in charge of Congress. Think about their roles and the legislative possibilities and you
will see what I mean.
Why is his state on this list?
Here are the 10 states with the higest rates of domestic violence:
Kentucky - 45.30%
North Carolina - 43.90%
Nevada - 43.80%
Alaska - 43.30%
Arizona - 42.60%
Washington - 42.60%
Idaho - 42.50%
Missouri - 41.70%
Just can't get past the video of him running to benny hill.
@@JJ-iq5cv What in the hell does that have to do with anything? You leftists always have to bring up a point that has nothing to do with what anyone was talking about, so that you could either draw attention to yourself, or deflect from the real issue. Everyone's wise to it now so you may as well stop.
@@christophersmith2470 Why would anyone want this guy to be POTUS if his state is such a mess? Why doesn't he do something to help his state? That's the real question.
I suspect that if they are looking to a bank for a major loan, this is why the ESG. The banks are doing business based on a credit score, in more ways than one kind.
Good point
Boom....💣💣
YES! I remember my orientation training for Tom Thumb.. essentially forced me to "acknowledge my unconscious bias" there is no answer to say no. I felt personally attacked.
I am sooooo glad Senator Hawley is on our team......and that team is the average working American. Go Josh, we love you.
Well - this makes me never want to spend a cent at Kroger - or any of their affiliates - again.
I'd love to vote for senator Hawley for presidency
Sen. Hawley BOSSMAN!!
Two super large grocery companies that should not be allowed to merge. Competition brings down prices!
At the end. Albertsons will go under if there is no merger. Their stores in my market have 1 store manager for 3 stores.
Monopoly. That's their game.
Right 👍👍👍👍
What A MACHINE.... LOVE THIS GUY 💯🇨🇦👊
More of a tool than a machine.
Thank you for telling the man that he’s either clueless or a liar. Or, ore likely both.
Mr Hawley is outstanding in his questioning.
Kroger/Frys stores are woke as hell!
Kroger- Frys, Smiths, Fred Meyer. What other names do they do business under?????
@@Mary-uz2tz Gerbes Supermarkets
Oh yeah, I can tell by their ads.@@flyoverstate6893
Senator Hawley!👍 👍!
How long before they make us beg to be able go buy groceries ?
If The Proposed Railroad Strike Happens on Dec. 8TH,
It Definitely Won't Be That Much Longer!
Beijing Joe has Already Crippled The Trucking Industry the past 2yrs, While He Has Drained The Strategic Oil Reserves To Record Lows, and can No Longer Keep Fuel & Energy Prices Artificially Low, which means they Will Rise Exponentially.
If that RAILROAD Strike Happens, The Entire Supply Chain Will Virtually Collapse!
Senator Hawley is shocked by some of these answers it's amazing how these people in high positions are clueless and don't know anything !!
They purposely don’t know - it’s called “plausible deniability.” It allows them to lie - just a bunch of semantics. Biden’s administration excels in this - the only thing they all do well.
I think he is pretending to be shocked. But I could be wrong...
How much of that waste, given to the food banks, etc., was used as a tax deduction on tax reported earnings? What kind of accounting was taking place to promote your, “fundamental purpose“? A Representative of FTC should be in the hearing to refer to what these guys try to push off on them, while not answering the question. As it is, “I’ll get back to you on that”, just means we will never hear more about it till it happens, maybe!
A Robert Barnes and Hawley podcast would be must listen.
By merging we can control food prices, offer junk food to everybody, and act as Commies!😂
Please don't use words that you have no clue what they mean.
I don't think you quite know what a "commie" is or what the principle of communism is...like not a fu@$ing bit actually....
'We are not going to close ANY stores ....(5 seconds later).... except the ones we are going to close'
He literally said that.
This was the best thing I’ve seen on TH-cam
Sen. Harley needs to be the new Speaker of the House.
ESG = you just lost my business
Never give into esg
Senator Hawley for AG!
When asked a specific yes or no answer Mr McMullen plays with words fooling no one. Senator Hawley sees the lies coming from McMullen. Great job Senator Hawley.
Thank you Sir, Excellent
Where are our laws that are supposed to stop this from happening
Keep fighting for all legal Americans Senator!
Geeze, McMullen has no business in offering testimony, Hawley is ripping him apart.
Oh boy.....I think I found my new favorite politician.
Esg is all about power
Absolutely that's what they want
“You’re inserting the word frontline. Let’s just stay with worker.” Beautiful
I'm curious, don't these execs from Kroger (NYSE: KR) and Albertson (NYST: ACI) work FOR THE SHAREHOLDERS? Isn't their fiduciary responsibilities to the shareholders? I, for one, cringe whenever I hear talk of "inclusive" especially in terms of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion". People being "promoted and rewarded based on their success and ability to be a leader ..." doesn't mean a damned thing. How about doing the job for which they were hired and meeting/exceeding goals, and not what ethnic group or gender to which they identify as being used for measuring "success"? All these bs terms (E.G.: Diversity and Inclusion) are being pushed by the Feds on all companies, large and small. Big brother is selling cowpatties as an absolute necessity for corporate success ... and they're not. Product quality, customer satisfaction, and field support will determine a company's success or failure. Just sayin'.
America, josh Hawley would be your perfect president of the United States of America 🇺🇸
God the corruption is in all corporations. Being an employee of this old man... makes me sick
Go, Senator!!!!!
“there is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception fraud.” Milton Friedman
Straight forward fellow right here
Senator Hawley is a BADDD ASS!!!!
How strategic ignorance rules the world - deliberately not knowing is the new trend allowing CEO's to avoid real accountability for their corporate misdeeds.
Glad that I voted for him.
But, if he lets-up on them, if he compromises, if he bows...I am prepared to vote for someone else.
Dude is a hawk. Zeros in and uses on talons. Like this guy. Don’t agree with everything he does, yet Hawley is real. Refreshing to listen to
Imagine Senator Hawley as the next Attorney General.
There would be 1000 private jets fleeing the country filled with current Democrats and ex-politicians.
I’m listening to this while on the train to picket In Front of the New School in NYC after 25 years working and watching so much corruption and profit while the actual professors are 87 percent of the faculty and are all part time, paid only for the hours we are in the classroom at this expensive university making peanuts for a just b that takes many additional hours of labor that are wholly unpaid., mostly uninsured, and in a school where harassment and contract grievances are arbitrated by the university’s own employees. These conversations MATTER . We are two weeks into our strike. PAY YOUR ASSOCIATEs! No raise since 2018 and admin is 45 percent of the university’s budget, while 2000 teachers are struggling
Thanks
My small town had 2 grocery stores. One bought out the other and prices went up and up
he just got caught in a law-- he says no store closings- and then says he's spinning them off-- to competitors they are such snakes in the grass.
As an employee of Albertsons, I vote no.
As an employee of Kroger, I strongly agree. You don't want what Kroger will bring, you really don't
"UUUH UUUH UUUH..."
There's no way a ceo doesn't know everything that is going on in their company. He's lying
I LOVE THIS SENATOR !!!! THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI YOU ARE SOOOOOOO LUCKY !!!!!
Will these CEO's be charged with lying to Congress when they shutter stores and layoff people?
Hawley is a dammmm shark and I love it!
the rich get richer
Smart, confident, assertive, definitive, direct and fearless. Josh would make a fantastic future President. I still want Trump at this point, as this next election is likely the last election that he will be able to be taken seriously for in consideration of his age. But Josh should consider maybe a 2028 run. (Edit) The next conservative President no matter who it is, should consider Josh for the United States Attorney General. Get him in there and you would see some serious clean-up of those Hell holes we call the DOJ and FBI. We need someone in there to clean house and he seems to have exactly what it would take. Josh "Kick Ass and Take Names" Hawley.
Fearless he ran from his own fan bases after encouraging them to attack are capital.Pu
Trump will never be president again.thank god.Hes not cleaning up anything.Trump created a whole nother swamp.
Stop ESG scores. Stockholders are getting scammed.
Zero waste? I get rid of two pallet sized compost bins a day. Fruit that could have been given to charities.
Thank you Senator God Bless
Josh Hawley is great and I hope he helps to stop this merger, don't let them control the food source.
I am so thankful that Hawley is my Senator!
Terms like ESG and DEI are simply fluffy words that absolutely do nothing except virtue signal. Whatever happened to "equal opportunity" and "welcoming environment" that were in place for the past 60 years since the Civil rights era? It's getting really tiring to hear this crap.
Big food chain is scary. Some few BIG food chain get a monopoly on selling food. Not good in the long run, quality goes down, and fresh food will be gone, only frozen beef/vegetable . Horrible future ahead.
Josh Hawley is a rock star.
Incompetence of a Federal lawsuit against you company is not a valid answer. If he doesn’t know this he cannot be trusted with anything else he might know!
GOD BLESS Senator Josh Hawley!
AVE MARIA!
Merger I think not. Shut these woke corporations down.
The voice crack from CEO McMullen when they started talking about layoffs 😂😂😂
Sen. Hawley is a true patriot 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
HEAR, HEAR!!
The CEO of Kroeger's is a filthy liar and should be prosecuted for perjury. There is no way under the sun he was unaware of the federal lawsuit against his company settled in plaintiff's favor for being fired for their religious beliefs. Perjury plain and simple.
You rocked it, Senator Hawley!! Thank you!
These mega mergers are dangerous for consumers !
It's getting hard to find places to shop.
Wow! Risk arising, give ESG a call to learn more!
Scary that the CEO of a company does not know when his company is sued by the Federal government! Why does inclusion alway force the majority to abide to what the minority beleave? I don't care who loves who, or what you do with anyone else in your bedroom, but I do not need to agree with your beliefs. I respect everyone's personal decisions, but I don't have to agree with them, and should not be forced to!
Hawley kicking the Woke. Great future POTUS candidate.
Senator Hawley gets right to the point of the wierd corporate culture that presents themselves as inclusive and promoting their equity policies, as if by doing so they are pereach other. A well functioning corporation and meeting obligations to shareholders. The two are exlusive. Sen Hawley is right that they should be focused on delivering high quality reasonably priced food to everyone in the communities they serve.
This merger will be a disaster. It will create a near monopoly in the Midwest similar to Safeway's dominance on the West Coast where groceries are a lot higher due to lack of competition. Kroger purchased the independent chain Marianos just a few years ago and they immediately raised prices and customer service began to deteriorate. Bad, bad idea. Albertsons, the merger target, is a better run, slightly less expensive store and has better customer service. It will certainly be ruined.
Albertsons bought the all vons stores including where I work at and things have gone downhill for us. They are so cheap. safety is non existent anymore same with customer service. We had the best customer service and had to take a class on it when we started there. People who have started there within a few years haven't a clue what customer service is.
@@bethanyhealy4989 Sorry to hear that. But Kroger is ever worse than Albertsons when it comes to customer service. They also seem very unethical. For example, they often don't mark the sale price on the items on the shelf so that shoppers can't get the bargain unless they have a list to remind them. I think they do this on purpose.
Well being in Canada I can tell you that yea, it's absolutely a load of bullshit when only a couple companies essentially control your entire food market. Loblaws, Metro, and Sobeys essentially run the show across the country here, and our grocery prices have increased by a RIDICULOUS amount the past few years. Government is too limp to even do anything about it, and they probably don't care to because it's all just more tax revenue for them. Those companies were proven guilty of price fixing for bread and various other things a few years back and NOTHING happened to them as a result, they paid some pittance of a fine and that's it. They were recently "investigated" for price gouging and nothing came of that either. Apparently 15-25% food price increases during 8% inflation is perfectly reasonable...
I say all that as someone who works for one of those companies and is in a position to see not just what we charge, but what we pay. And I can tell you without question, the increase in price outpaces the increase in cost 99 times out of 100. Year after year these guys report record breaking profits, but nah, nothing janky is going on. They claim grocery prices only went up like 7-8%, but that's only true if you average the increases across the board. Most things haven't really gone up, but the high-volume sales items? Things people buy lots of and all the time? Those go up by ridiculous leaps. Meat prices have skyrocketed in the last 5-7 years, but actual costs have almost stayed the same. Margins in the meat department in particular, I previously considered 30-35% to be extremely good, that was "high" for the most part. Now margins in that same department are upwards of 45%....
I'm all for a business making money, but when it comes to food the fact that we all need to eat to survive makes their scummy unnecessary price hikes just a whole entire load of greedy bullshit that won't stop till it all stops the hard way....