[JohnBrookz]

I’m an engineer at a grocery chain that essentially has a monopoly in most of Texas. The chain has a good and well earned reputation for the public but it definitely uses underhanded monopolistic tactics to maintain dominance.

As it’s grown and expanded you can definitely tell that the ethics and how they treat workers / customers has gone down hill. Maybe it’s all the Amazon managers they’ve absorbed.

[jauntywundrkind]

I have not even a rank neophytes understanding but these situations always remind me of the Hindu Trimurti, the balance of three powering the universe. Creation/dynamics gives way to preservation/ossification which eventually is destroyed/decays.

In the Vampire & Mage tabletop, there's Wild, Weaver, Wyrm, a direct parallel, which was a very fun cosmological tension.

Anyhow, this just feels like the lifecycle of companies. The young companies are dynamic & growing, but over times most orgs tend to ossify - even as they expand still becoming more deliberate & managed in their ways, punctuated by moments of renewed chaos & flourishing again. Extracting & preserving rather than growing. Until until until.

[nunez]

How so? There are many grocery store chains in Texas (not that this matters, as they are all merging with each other).

[JohnBrookz]

If you’re in the major Texas cities you know there’s really only one.

[DontchaKnowit]

H.E.B?

cause yeah, I don't care if they're underhanded, HEB is the shit