Is this planned to create monopolies?

I was just thinking. The whole Budlight , and now Miller lite beer , and Addidas, etc all jumping on the woke bandwagon.
it's like the big mega corporations : blackrock/vanguard are herding their customers to a smaller and smaller selection of products.
With them owning all these brands, if we boycot half, it means we start buying the other half , and then the same happens with the remaining half .

Until we're left with just a few products. To them it makes no difference as they own it all anyway.
This could be their plan. If you look at old Soviet store images , it was just a few product options.
Why they would want this, I'm not sure. Could be cheaper, easier that makes sense. Also to demoralize. And as the changes happen so gradually many wouldn't even notice till it's too late.

Good thoughts.
The means of transport of goods would be the major concern. Why I say that is because the events of sabotage would be like no other time in American history.

I don't know if you had thought about the 3 plus million single male illegals in the country... This is May and the States are now feeling the cracks of the American way of life fall apart.

originally posted by: ancientlight
I was just thinking. The whole Budlight , and now Miller lite beer , and Addidas, etc all jumping on the woke bandwagon.
it's like the big mega corporations : blackrock/vanguard are herding their customers to a smaller and smaller selection of products.
With them owning all these brands, if we boycot half, it means we start buying the other half , and then the same happens with the remaining half .

Until we're left with just a few products. To them it makes no difference as they own it all anyway.
This could be their plan. If you look at old Soviet store images , it was just a few product options.
Why they would want this, I'm not sure. Could be cheaper, easier that makes sense. Also to demoralize. And as the changes happen so gradually many wouldn't even notice till it's too late.

I don’t think this tracks. InBev (the owner of AB/Budweiser) already controls ~40% of the market.

If you wanted to consolidate down to a single product line and you are in the beer biz, you’d want to own InBev and take out Miller & Heineken, which would give you monopoly pricing power at near 80% market share.

Decreasing your US market share by X% over the Budweiser brouhaha made the US market less monopolistic not more (the 20% Other Brewers will have the best fiscal year in their history against the Big 4). Non-Big 4 beer is flying off the shelf and MolsonCoors is also seeing a large increase.

The Ford woke Ad makes zero sense from a market share POV either — F-Series trucks make up nearly 100% of Ford’s profits worldwide and Ford has been losing market share for decades. If they mess up their profit center, Ford is hardly worth even acquiring aside from the breakup value.

Adidas is unsurprising. Tennis shoes are targeted at youth market, if the consumer metrics say 20% of zoomers ID as queer, Adidas is going to run with that even though they are likely to find, over time, that their marketing data was garbage, teens are nearly impossible to accurately poll, and that nearly all of that “target market” was a passing fad concentrated in a handful of cities.

a reply to: JohnTitorSociety

spot on..

Adidas is unsurprising. Tennis shoes are targeted at youth market, if the consumer metrics say 20% of zoomers ID as queer, Adidas is going to run with that even though they are likely to find, over time, that their marketing data was garbage, teens are nearly impossible to accurately poll, and that nearly all of that “target market” was a passing fad concentrated in a handful of cities.

as is this.. each generation is the same and we follow the same trajectory, teachers, media, marketing ect think they can program kids to be a mini me loyalists and each gen they fail.. my teachers where all 60s student tankies instead of creating mini me marxists they created a bunch of capitalists the same will be true now.. they'll get the verbal agreement then the kids will do their own thing and in the meanwhile these corps lose their brands bread and butter they need to survive.

a reply to: ancientlight

I see us going the other way and creating space for the (in American) mom and pops that where destroyed by the mega corps,

so in that regards its like watching the fall of the various east India companies.. when toys r us failed here what sprang up in every town was the little toy shops toys r us killed off.. we are fast approaching that return in other areas.. and i for one welcome it as it made life interesting and each town less of a universal clone..

A few hours ago, here on german TV news, i heard that Nestlè (eff em anyway) will limit its supply now. As an example that guy said something like: We take 15 only slightly different products and at the end we will offer only two instead of 15 of them.

Makes sense somehow if you eat everything as it´s served, without thinking about what else this could mean. In the GDR socialism they didn´t need a million of goods also, except those goods in the Kaufhaus des Westens of course, so that the "the party is always right" bigwigs could buy what the population wasn´t allowed to.

Everything for the top of the pyramid, nothing for the foundation that is somehow forced to support the top (because the foundation is too stupid to simply step aside and stop supporting the greedy top)!

a reply to: DerBeobachter

i find what the mega corps do supply is ridiculous volume of choice of increasingly poor products.. what that's doing is creating space for breakthrough, i now only buy meat/eggs/veg from farmers, and fish from fishermen.. yesterday I had a shop brought goodie that just made me feel sick.. the quality is not only atrocious but making people fat unhealthy and ill..

originally posted by: nickyw
a reply to: ancientlight

I see us going the other way and creating space for the (in American) mom and pops that where destroyed by the mega corps,

so in that regards its like watching the fall of the various east India companies.. when toys r us failed here what sprang up in every town was the little toy shops toys r us killed off.. we are fast approaching that return in other areas.. and i for one welcome it as it made life interesting and each town less of a universal clone..

That made me think of what Walmart has done to main street over the years. They built their super centers and killed off independent shops. I have no sorrow when hearing Walmart is shutting down stores. Same in the hardware business. I would rather find a local shop than go to the big box store and spend half an hour hunting for the bolt I need.

This has been going on for decades. It's the illusion of choice. It started with the consolidation (buying out)of companies, but they didn't tell you that A company had bought out B company then C company because they kept the same names and logos. Then they hit with the psychological bit by offering cheaper goods in one company but not others. So you go for the cheaper goods, but it's really the same company.

Now they don't give a fig what you know because they own all the companies. Oh yes, you'll have a few mom and pop operations springing up but the powers will make it harder and harder for them to operate. I'm sorry to say but this is the American way, free enterprise, the end goal, so pay up and shut up.

originally posted by: nickyw
a reply to: JohnTitorSociety

spot on..

Adidas is unsurprising. Tennis shoes are targeted at youth market, if the consumer metrics say 20% of zoomers ID as queer, Adidas is going to run with that even though they are likely to find, over time, that their marketing data was garbage, teens are nearly impossible to accurately poll, and that nearly all of that “target market” was a passing fad concentrated in a handful of cities.

as is this.. each generation is the same and we follow the same trajectory, teachers, media, marketing ect think they can program kids to be a mini me loyalists and each gen they fail.. my teachers where all 60s student tankies instead of creating mini me marxists they created a bunch of capitalists the same will be true now.. they'll get the verbal agreement then the kids will do their own thing and in the meanwhile these corps lose their brands bread and butter they need to survive.

We are missing the the mark.

We have served our purpose. We did an excellent job of producing and raising their desired and targeted prize.

We are useless and of no use to them now, so they don’t care what we think, say, or want. They want the children. We have made a new generation of lost children that are crying to be led. They are leading them into a new world. A world were we will be the misfits, and will not go, and will not be accepted if we tried to go. The clock is ticking. Tick tock.

It is what it is, and we have to take responsibility for our part in the grand plan. After all, they would never have been able to do it without us. It is only a matter of time. Tick Tock.

originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn

originally posted by: nickyw
a reply to: JohnTitorSociety

spot on..

Adidas is unsurprising. Tennis shoes are targeted at youth market, if the consumer metrics say 20% of zoomers ID as queer, Adidas is going to run with that even though they are likely to find, over time, that their marketing data was garbage, teens are nearly impossible to accurately poll, and that nearly all of that “target market” was a passing fad concentrated in a handful of cities.

as is this.. each generation is the same and we follow the same trajectory, teachers, media, marketing ect think they can program kids to be a mini me loyalists and each gen they fail.. my teachers where all 60s student tankies instead of creating mini me marxists they created a bunch of capitalists the same will be true now.. they'll get the verbal agreement then the kids will do their own thing and in the meanwhile these corps lose their brands bread and butter they need to survive.

We are missing the the mark.

We have served our purpose. We did an excellent job of producing and raising their desired and targeted prize.

We are useless and of no use to them now, so they don’t care what we think, say, or want. They want the children. We have made a new generation of lost children that are crying to be led. They are leading them into a new world. A world were we will be the misfits, and will not go, and will not be accepted if we tried to go. The clock is ticking. Tick tock.

It is what it is, and we have to take responsibility for our part in the grand plan. After all, they would never have been able to do it without us. It is only a matter of time. Tick Tock.

The flaw in this argument is I and my family have been members of the top .1% to 1% for 1,0000 years in multiple countries.

No one ever pitched me a grand conspiracy.

Most of what you are witnessing is entropy and chaos

Humans can -barely- manage 5,000 member groups.

Managing the US, the world or even just the USG is beyond the capacity of almost every single human that has ever lived with a half dozen exceptions that may not actually be exceptions but quirks of writing history.

“They” are definitely out to get you — but “They” are way more out to get the other “They” — at the top of the pyramid, punching down is not the game, trying to destroy your peer is the game.

Trump and Hillary being decent recent examples of this in a wholly U.S. based frame.