downtheroad
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Rick Y wrote:Shucks, that's nothing. I have a wife who controls 100% of what I buy!
I know you and I would get along just fine....now that is FUNNY.
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Old-Biscuit wrote:I'm looking over the Brands & items represented and I can only find 3 Brands and 4 items that I actually purchase.......and two items are candy bars.
Same here... Most of the organic and store brands aren't shown there, and those are generally what I buy. I'd say only perhaps 5-10% of the groceries I buy are from the listed brands.
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atreis wrote:Old-Biscuit wrote:I'm looking over the Brands & items represented and I can only find 3 Brands and 4 items that I actually purchase.......and two items are candy bars.
Same here... Most of the organic and store brands aren't shown there, and those are generally what I buy. I'd say only perhaps 5-10% of the groceries I buy are from the listed brands.
same here. I don't buy standard processed stuff. So while I do buy some, most of my items are not in those groups.
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wa8yxm wrote:It is actually much worse.. Thanks to mega-merger-mania, fewer and fewer are controlling more and more.. Radio and television for example.
At one time there were rules about owning too much of the media in any given market,, but the broadcasters kept pushing and pushing and now there are many markets where every on-air personality, every news anchor and every newspaper reporter get their paycheck from the same paymaster..
This used to be outlawed, and still should be.
every news anchor and every newspaper reporter get their paycheck from the same, not to mention the same script to read from.
If they are down to 10, how long before it is down to 1 or 2?
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"If they are down to 10, how long before it is down to 1 or 2?"
Have you checked the list of names for the various Boards Of Directors?
You might find that many of the companies are actually controlled by the same group of people!
There are a LOT of corporations, but not all that many "directors"!
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My dad always claimed that, there is nothing better then a good healthy monopoly.
This of course is looking from the business side.
From the consumer side it would limit the competition which lowers prices, in some cases.
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The following is a response I received from another web site after I posted the link. Don't take credit for it just sharing it. For all I know the "pseudovariety" group is managed / owned by rv.net... therefore this thread will be locked or worse.....
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There used to be a site called oligopolywatch.com . Whoever was running the site really knew his or her stuff about what big companies are up to but the site has been shut down . The main goal of the website was to show how there were hardly any small companies left and how the big guys take over . I hated to see it go and I've often wondered if they weren't forced out of business or bought out by these very corporations . They couldn't have been happy with what was being put on the web about them . One of the words they used was "pseudovariety" . For instance , you can go to the store and look at all the kinds of beer there are such as Killians but is actually owned by Coors - they bought it in the 80's and it was originally called Enniscorthy Ruby Ale I know that P and G dumped the Crisco brand some years back because they saw the trend going away from trans fat based oils . The history of Crisco (crystallized cottonseed oil) in and of itself is pretty fascinating but it all boiled down to Edison and those annoying light bulbs of his killing their market share because they sold cottonseed oil as lamp oil . P and G found out that a chemist in Germany had found a way to add a hydrogen ion to veg. oils and solidify them . It was pretty much a no-brainer for them to start hydrogenating all of that cottonseed oil they had lying around but it took a marketing genius named Edward Bernays to get America cooking with the stuff . The new era of heart disease had begun. Bernays by the way was the nephew of Freud and was the first to actually use applied psychology in marketing and laid the groundwork for the tactics they use on us today. He's known as the father of spin and even used the suffrage movement to get women started smoking. Sorry for the long post but I've always been a little interested in this topic.
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It will come down to one or two entities owning or controlling commodities and everything else. A prime example was one Hedge Fund, in London about a year ago buying up almost all of the world's Cacao production. Don't know if it was dealt with or not. Another was aluminum, or Kraft takeover of Cadbury and a host of others.
Some say it doesn't affect me......for now?
Monopolies are rigging markets and driving up prices and denying products and competition.
Our laws are not being applied to these monsters.
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Not to mention the scope and power that goes along with some of these Mega's. G.E. is a company Link that most connect with stoves, refrigerators and many other appliances, but has very far reaching power to effect how things work.
The average American is not interested in how all this opens up as long as they're life is not seriously impacted. It can also have strength in films, news and other Media operations. Other things can not be discussed on this forum due to it's posting regulations.
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In 1988 there were 25 petroleum refiners in America. They have merged into 7 companies now.
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