{"id":1017,"date":"2024-12-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:00:00","slug":"its-a-dog-eat-dog-world-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/its-a-dog-eat-dog-world-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Dog-Eat-Dog World Out There!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2447-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1015\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Albertsons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Goddamn it\u2019s a dog-eat-dog world out there. Like we didn\u2019t already know this. Albertsons had tried pimpin itself out to Kroger for the last 2 years because, let\u2019s face it, they suck and will have to file for bankruptcy. Albertsons thought they had secured Kroger to buy them. 2 years later just when it looked like it was about to happen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/12\/10\/nx-s1-5114999\/kroger-albertsons-merger-ftc-lawsuit-court-ruling\">not one but two<\/a> judges said nope faster than Captain Liam Shaw.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2446-1-300x169.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2446-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2446-1.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s Albertsons\u2019 next move? If you can\u2019t get them to buy you then you may as well try to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kroger-albertsons-79e366723d7287b2df71d96730fba76e\">sue them instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goddamn it\u2019s a dog-eat-dog world out there. Like we didn\u2019t already know this. Albertsons had tried pimpin itself out to Kroger for the last 2 years because, let\u2019s face it, they suck and will have to file for bankruptcy. Albertsons thought they had secured Kroger to buy them. 2 years later just when it looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[530,531],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-albertsons","tag-krogers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2447-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}