America's Top Grocery Chain Laying Off Employees Left and Right

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6. Ah yes, that old "better serve customers" routine.

Corporations will never tell you the truth. When I called Bigelow about cutting the number of teabags in a box from 24 to 20, their response was "Our customers told us they wanted more conve-e-e-e-e-enient packaging." When I called Starkist to ask how long until we'll be buying 1 oz cans of tuna after shrinking from 7 oz to 6.5 oz to 6 oz to 5 oz in just a few years, I was told "Oh sir, we took out mostly water." The shrinkage in both cases took place overnight, industry-wide, all brands. No collusion there. You couldn't find either product in the larger size anywhere, and it happened in the blink of an eye. I think Kroger sees the writing on the wall. They know we're headed for a major recession, if not depression, and they want to get ahead of the game and pocket a bunch of cash before it hits.