How a grocery merger could expand a surveillance network

Kroger's $1.65 cardinal projected acquisition of Giant Eagle mightiness not lone consolidate the market market, but besides a immense surveillance web that includes Flock cameras, a new report warns.

Beyond modular concerns that a merger could alteration contention and summation prices, the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP), which advocates for contention argumentation reforms, says that the consolidation could besides grow lawsuit surveillance by a azygous company. It comes astatine a clip wherever Americans are peculiarly on-edge astir surveillance technologies similar Flock cameras and surveillance pricing, heading into a midterm predetermination mostly defined …

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