Kroger facility in Austin, TX is closing down on 5/25. Never knew we even had one here (no clue how they got my email though)
🤷♂️
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
17 points (90.5% liked)
Austin Texas Community
985 readers
1 users here now
Austin Community news, resources, chat, and memes Currently there are not smaller communities like classifieds or jobs like there was on Reddit, feel free to create any related communities and send me a message, I can link them here in the sidebar. For now, let’s feel free to post any content, as long as it’s related to Austin or Texas in general.
Rules
- Be kind.
- No spam or gofundme type requests.
- No racist or other prejudices allowed.
If you see these please report them.
Currently we only have two mods, if you see something, please report the post using the three dots menu.
If you would like to help moderate, please contact me: https://lemmy.world/u/netburnr or on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/@netburnr:matrix.org
Related Communities
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Austin Discord - run by hopexx
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Kroger is trying to merge with Albertsons, but it’s not going as planned. So Randall’s starts closing locations, and Kroger starts closing locations. Who knows what happens next. Personally I’d like to see more competition in the grocery space, not less.
I think the next disruption won’t be another grocery store (ie, Aldi). But I think it will happen once costs for vertical farming become sustainable.
Grocery stores are the middlemen between farmers and consumers. Skip the middleman. Buy direct from the farm. Plus the “farm” doesn’t need to use pesticides so product can be optimized for taste. Traditional meat will probably go away as well and lab grown alternates be available at your local vFarm.
Or maybe humans go instinct completely and fully replaced by advanced AI. No need for food at this point. All sustained on some form of electrical source (solar or even nuclear fusion lol). I don’t think this will happen in current generations lifetime, but who knows we might be surprised