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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jonah, post: 3401950, member: 105728&quot;]Bad news for Harris Teeter drivers? Or maybe not so bad? </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>(Reuters) - Kroger Co </b></span><b><span style="color: #0000ff">said on Tuesday it would buy regional grocer Harris Teeter Supermarkets Inc </span><span style="color: #0000ff">in a $2.5 billion deal, the latest in a string of grocery industry consolidations. [...]</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff"></span><span style="color: #0000ff">The combined business will operate 2,631&nbsp; supermarkets in 34 states and the District of Columbia, with over&nbsp; 368,300 employees. Harris Teeter has a non-union workforce, while Kroger&nbsp; largely operates with unionized staff.[...]</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000cd">Harris Teeter top management will continue to&nbsp; lead the business out of its North Carolina headquarters. No store&nbsp; closures are expected, though the U.S. Federal Trade Commission will be&nbsp; expected to look at their overlapping presence in Raleigh, North&nbsp; Carolina; Charlottesville and Hampton Roads, Virginia; and Nashville,&nbsp; Tennessee. [...]&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></b>(&nbsp; <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/09/us-harristeeter-takeover-kroger-idUSBRE9680EI20130709" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/09/us-harristeeter-takeover-kroger-idUSBRE9680EI20130709" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/09/us-harristeeter-takeover-kroger-idUSBRE9680EI20130709</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; )</p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody knows if mergers like this in the past changed company position on the trade union?&nbsp; Will they live everything as it is, or do total makeover?&nbsp; Closest Krogers DC&#039;s to Harris Teeter&#039;s are in Atlanta&nbsp; and Salem, Virginia. Do they operate there their own trucks, or use outside carriers? </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess now Harris Teeter stores in Nashville will be served by Kroger&#039;s Memphis DC.&nbsp; Stores in DC area also can be taken over by Kroger. Looks like majority of HT stores served by Indian Trail DC will be safe for now, unless Kroger decide to fire us all and use USX, or Schneider instead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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