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Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions
Albertsons uses land use restrictions in Mammoth, CA to stop competition so it can be the only store in town.
A few months ago, I got an email from an economist explaining how Albertsons abuses its monopoly power in a small skiing town in rural California using a similar strategy. She doesn't understand Vons and Safeway are the same, yelled at me for adding items to our order, refused to honor the digital coupon prices and told us to shop at Grocery Outlet…” Conversely, if you have the only store in town, it’s much easier to make cash by paying to keep an empty lot from being filled by a rival, than to lower your prices and improve service.
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