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Oct 31, 2019 5:37 AM
urshface8008
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Sorry for the potato pic
MV - woah! Hope y’all have a happy and safe spooky day!
ceraxis
The secret ingredient is pixels
DungeonMaster69
CocaCola is owned by CocaCola
shentokozil183
you're clever, but you can't fool me, I know it's CocaCola's all the way down
Wolsty123
I would just like to take this opportunity to say fuck nestle and the owner thinking that water shouldn't be a human right
CocoBerrie
The illusion of clarity
WhyAmIForcedToHaveFun
TertiaryCharacter
Illusion unclear, put diversity in ass
BlackSiren32
it's not that scary really
jattie
This CAN help me avoid Nestle. They're all evil, but I just hate Nestle so much.
DrewF650GS
Oh sweet. now I can eat cheetohs instead of oatmeal for a healthy breakfast since they're basically the same thing
firstlaughofthedaythankyou
I thought parts of my pizza tasted like dog food.
TheMazzy
I used to work with Nestlé, JBS, and Cargill. All our rejected product or dropped on floor goes to animal feed.
firstlaughofthedaythankyou
:/
TheMazzy
I hate this industrialised system.
theartofmath
AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's
VagisilToothpaste
Well, this is also the result of greedy smaller companies/corporations agreeing to sell out to the 'popular kids.' Integrity meant nothing.
AnIPAisMyFavorite
To what degree is this smaller companies gobbled up by the big? Looks more like their line cards.
haveyouheardabouttheseinternetmemes
When has business ever been about anything other than "selling out?"
Someshithead241
The illusion of diversity, and the illusion of diversity, political sense, that these companies push forward to sell more.
internetfox
diversity of what? Taste? Ownership?
MoabsWashpot
Now i know what other brands P&G make so i don't buy them either.
romicra88
Communication companies are the same way if not worse. Almost guaranteed your "local" media provider is owned by Disney, Verizon, etc.
drh1138
This is late capitalism: who works for who is obscured behind the facade of corporate subsidization.
WorldsSmallestMegaDick
Or just companies can produce more than one product, like yeah the cereal producer has more than one flavor whats the problem?
TheMazzy
Most of these are ssmaller companies bought up by more successful competitors. That leads to more devious price control by those left on top
drh1138
It leads to the concentration of wealth and political power. It's not just "different flavors" of one product type, they make everything.
WorldsSmallestMegaDick
But that is what it shows you have a drink company listed thats all drinks, two cereal companies that are all cereals, and so on...
TheMazzy
Yes. It's a business tactic to corner your market, driving competition to bankruptcy or absorbing them. I.E. Sony/Nintendo/XBox do...(1/2)
TheMazzy
Something similiar by purchasing studios (like insomniac) giving them a degree of control over the IP.
Malthraz
Still better than no one making any food.
pennstuvning
And the ones on the outside are all owned by disney
johnvictor
They don't own them wholly. Yet.
urshface8008
Scary to think about
pennstuvning
I didn't expect this to get so many replies, I don't know for real if they do. Here is Wikipedia's list of Disney's owned property: 1/
pennstuvning
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_The_Walt_Disney_Company
umlcat
Quasimonopolies ... Companies that pretend they are NOT monopolies
tweetydancerishere11
Irrespective, the number and scope of available consumer goods is still one of the hallmarks of our era. (1/2)
tweetydancerishere11
We put our energies into new crackers and fizzy drinks more than into, say, solving world hunger or climate change. Pass the Oreos please
RichardValentine
And then there's DR PEPPER!
MonFabuleuxDestin
1/2 they are few – we are many ... let‘s stop buying their products, let’s stop giving them our money, let‘s stop giving them power ...
MonFabuleuxDestin
2/2 ... minimalism just for a few weeks ... a small sacrifice to bring back our freedom
TheMazzy
The scale of the propoganda machine keeps too many in ignorance.
ThereIsAJifForThat
CondescendingCunt
Eh, not really. It looks rather opaque to me. It doesn't even have an alpha channel.
thesketchykid
I didn't see "Water" under Nestle
shouldhavemadebetterlifechoices
You’re the real MVP
keenharlequin
And if you zoom out, all of these are owned by the Sheinhardt Wig Company, which in itself is owned by... *jazz hands*... Halliburton!
sindail
Gonna guess the single downvote ya got is from Ops hurt feelings
TheMazzy
I think there may be bots that automatically downvote..
trekkiedane
Thanks!
AjaxZx
Reimmop
PG might be a good stock to invest in atm...
ILaughAndCryEveryDayFromU
Much better
ThatShiftyMonkey
Wow. So CocaCola owns CocaCola, CocaCola AND Diet CocaCola!?
CMDRKORR
krakenwagen
You don’t say
Expandhamburger
The pizza of diabetes
goudist
"It's not the best choice, it's Spacers Choice."
kraeftig
The board does not approve of your condescending sarcasm. Please report yourself to your supervisor for reprimand.
XVUltima
Failure to report for reprimand will result in reprimand.
ThrusterJaguar
Abathorus
Charming.
GrifCreeper
That whole corporate greed plot has to be a reference to Bethesda and the stuff they're doing to poor innocent Fallout
END3RW1GGIN
Well maybe Interplay shouldn't have sold it to them.
PedestrianElectrobastard
Hardly.
GodsFoot
- Martin Callahan
XVUltima
The best moon person he can be.
TheVakarian
You've had the rest, now try the best!
TheMazzy
Yep. I used work for Nestlé USA and we had quite similiar chart in the office.
InsertNameHereIGuess
Better to have all these companies owning a lot, than one or 2 owning everything. I would like to see more companies, but this is not so bad
PoweredbyOSengine
This is still only some of the market share of each product...
haveyouheardabouttheseinternetmemes
...it's not so good either. Why would we settle for "meh"
TheMazzy
Keep in mind you are seeing a snapshot. The market was more diverse before. So as time goes by this chart will get simpler.
MyOwnDemise
Exactly that, but shhhh, we live in a free and happy world...
TheMazzy
Are we channeling Slavoj Zizek here? ?
EchoChamberWorld1312
Everyone is happy now...
urshface8008
Right- don’t point out the bars of the cage...
Hoaxme70
just take yer soma... the bars fade
byronwashington
And? Does it matter if Coke makes both Coke and Sprite? Off brand stuff exists that you can still buy. Also, the amount of head companies...
byronwashington
might not be diverse, but the fact that they are all owned by a head corp is why a diverse amount of products are available...
byronwashington
everywhere. Local and smaller business couldn't afford to production costs for so many products nation wide.
TheMazzy
It does matter because lack of competion can result in lowering in quality (ie. HFCS) as well as worsening of worker conditions.
TheMazzy
Amazon's behavior is good example of this. They have their market cornered, and have achieved that largely by mistreating non-union workers.
byronwashington
Amazon isn't a fair comparison to the food companies in the OP and its a different situation. I see several of the companies in the OP...
byronwashington
have brands of soda, brands of candy, brands of cereal, etc. There is still competition there. Also, off brand stuff does still exist in...
byronwashington
supermarkets. My point about the positives also still stands, the fact that there are big head companies is why a diverse amount of...
TheMazzy
I used to work in US in the meat industry. There's very much an illusion of divrsity there. Smithfield,JBS, and Tyson own smaller ones>
TheMazzy
I.e. at JBS we would load some of products into boxes for different companies even though we were the source.
TheMazzy
Could be. I was saying an Amazon-esque situation could be an eventuality if there are further mergers.