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News & Current Events Mar 31, 2026 at 1:50 PM

Spice maker McCormick is combining with Unilever's food division

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Spice maker McCormick is combining with Unilever's food division
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Spice maker McCormick is combining with Unilever's food division
Spice and flavorings company McCormick is combining with Unilever’s foods division, which includes household names like Hellmann’s and Knorr
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AudibleNod Mar 31, 2026 +1758
>The combined company will maintain McCormick’s name and leadership. But upon closing, Unilever and its shareholders are expected to own 65% of the food company's outstanding equity, amounting $29.1 billion. Unilever would also get $15.7 billion in cash. Meanwhile, McCormick shareholders will own 35.0%. Oh good. Fewer people in control of the global food supply. Just what I wanted after reading that gas prices were above $4.00.
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imacyco Mar 31, 2026 +649
Sysco buying Restaurant Depot is another one.
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Certain_Luck_8266 Mar 31, 2026 +93
That one is HUGE. Jetro Restaurant Depot is a different model than sysco. It is essentially a 'costco' type scenario where restaurant owners can themselves fulfill the 'last mile' delivery themselves saving enormous costs and giving substantially greater flexibility. Sysco is going to kill this model.
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SEA_tide Apr 1, 2026 +2
It's not really going to change anything. US Foods bought the west coast chain Smart Foodservice, formerly Cash&Carry, from Smart & Final and renamed it US Foods Chef'Store in 2020. Costco is a major competitor through its Business Centers and business delivery as well. The funny thing is that foodservice delivery can actually be a lot cheaper or at least save costs by having everything just show up at the desired location instead of having to have someone go and do all the shopping themselves. It also allows for much greater consistency, especially among locations in different parts of the US and Canada.
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thekillercook Apr 1, 2026
Sysco has their own restaurant depot concept called Sysco2go, so no it won’t
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Certain_Luck_8266 Apr 1, 2026 +4
There are two. So it is hard to really gauge their intent....they are buying RD for 29B so maybe they are going to make a go at it, but it is just as likely they did some market research and saw a hundred little areas of the country with no competition other than RD and made the move. Either way, all of our appetizers just got shittier.
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jpiro Mar 31, 2026 +309
Yep, both announced today. We're on a quick path to a handful of companies controlling everything.
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V_T_H Mar 31, 2026 +146
Teddy rolling in his grave
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metalconscript Apr 1, 2026 +30
He may not have been perfect but the two things on top of my list are busting monopolies and the national park service
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SomeCountryFriedBS Mar 31, 2026 +4
Franky D?
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sump_daddy Mar 31, 2026 +34
Ted was the 'trust buster', not Frank
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Bituulzman Mar 31, 2026 +91
Wall-E's BuyNLarge or Idiocracy's Costco don't seem so far fetched.
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kayl_breinhar Mar 31, 2026 +60
At least *Idiocracy*-era Costco loves you. And I don't remember anyone on the *Axiom* complaining about rent or insurance payments. >.>
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Bituulzman Mar 31, 2026 +25
This is true. Both movies also lack a villain with a face. Perhaps all the humans on the axiom were all the billionaires? The rest of us peasants long gone by that time.
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sump_daddy Mar 31, 2026 +9
theres no way buy n large made just ONE ship (the axiom being allegedly their premium offering) so all the peasant ships must be out there somewhere (or perhaps being not super lazy and entitled, they simply found a different planet to inhabit)
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kayl_breinhar Mar 31, 2026 +5
Also, the other dark reality of WALL-E is that the people on the *Axiom* were almost assuredly consuming not only their own feces and urine (obviously reconstituted), but also the remains of their dead. It's a really dark goddamned movie when you look behind the cuteness of it.
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kayl_breinhar Mar 31, 2026 +3
I think - at this point - pretty much every one of us would trade 10 years of misery ending in inevitable death if it meant we no longer had to hear about or from billionaires with entitlement/insecurity complexes. And in the case of the ships being filled with billionaire descendants, at least they'd all be in blindingly unimaginable pain the moment they felt true 1g for the first time. I know PIXAR movies try to be optimistic, but knowing humanity well enough, my guess is that there'd be a minority of people willing to endure the pain to revitalize the Earth, and a majority who'd just go back into orbit and, well, then you've got *Elysium*. It's why I can't enjoy WALL-E. I can't imagine a story where a concept of humanity that's been encouraged to be lazy for countless generations suddenly gives that up for unimaginable hardship.
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Snagmesomeweaves Apr 1, 2026 +1
They also don’t really have bones to break
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clintgreasewoood Mar 31, 2026 +5
Demolition Man’s Taco Bell
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eazy_flow_elbow Mar 31, 2026 +3
Read my mind, atleast we’ll still have $1.50 hot dogs from our supreme overlords.
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d0ctorzaius Mar 31, 2026 +21
Corporate America is speed-running all this in case their bought politicians don't stay in power.
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Pornalt190425 Mar 31, 2026 +17
[Just 6 Corporations Remain](https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741/)
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jpiro Mar 31, 2026 +9
The Onion does not miss.
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sump_daddy Mar 31, 2026 +10
\> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.” the details are just so good
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Pornalt190425 Mar 31, 2026 +1
That one is my favorite line in the article by far (and its full of bangers). As true then as now, same as its ever been
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JuDGe3690 Mar 31, 2026 +7
From June 10, 1998—nearly 28 years ago—and still prescient. > A spokesperson for the newly formed Bank One-Chase Manhattan-MCI-WorldCom said the company plans to cut 92,000 jobs this month.
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[deleted] Mar 31, 2026 +2
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Ahelex Mar 31, 2026 +3
Please let the ruling company be tone deaf and name themselves Sauron.
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jaytrade21a Mar 31, 2026 +1
Hey, if you want good news...that means we are a bit closer to Rollerball becoming a reality....
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DrinkMunch Apr 1, 2026 +1
29.1 billion seems the magic number for both deals.
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[deleted] Mar 31, 2026 -3
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jpiro Mar 31, 2026 +20
Not to this extent.
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t40r Mar 31, 2026 -5
lol it's always been that way, there are like 7 major companies that control most of the other companies, this is nothing new, its just history repeating itself all over again
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moyismoy Mar 31, 2026 +13
People haven't heard this but Mars just bought out Kellogg
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imacyco Mar 31, 2026 +10
It was Ferrero Group that bought Kellogg's cereal business.
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illiter-it Mar 31, 2026 +4
Ferrero rocher cereal when
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sump_daddy Mar 31, 2026 +7
when the Ozempic Gigafactory goes online
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thelangosta Mar 31, 2026 +1
If there’s a dark chocolate version I’m all in. Just pour it down my throat
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bbbbbbbbbblah Mar 31, 2026 +3
They bought the North American cereal business. Mars bought the rest.
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bakingnaked Mar 31, 2026 +5
What????? Gross
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Gar758 Mar 31, 2026 +2
Sysco has ruined restaurants. It's why pricing of eating out have gone up so much. 
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Icy-Bunch609 Mar 31, 2026 +133
We really need to outlaw that shit where a company pretends to be more than one  Company.  People should have the right to know what shit they are dealing with.
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watercouch Mar 31, 2026 +51
It’s OK, we still have totally independent regional supermarkets like Baker’s, City Market, Dillons, Food 4 Less, Foods Co, Fred Meyer, Fry’s, Gerbes, Jay C, King Soopers, Kroger, Mariano’s, Metro, Pay-Less, Pick’n Save, QFC, Ralphs, Ruler and Smith’s.
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jonrev Mar 31, 2026 +32
Don't forget Acme, Albertson's, Amigos, Andronico's, Balducci's, Carrs, Haggen, Jewel-Osco, Kings, Lucky, Market Street, Pak 'n' Save, Pavilions, Randalls, Safeway, Shaw's, Star Market, Tom Thumb, United and Vons.
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Wumaduce Mar 31, 2026 +20
>Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants. Worth mentioning they tried to merge with Kroger, which was blocked by federal judges. Stop & shop and Hannafords are both owned by the same company, ahold delhaize. In southern New England, specifically southern Mass, we have some Trucchi's Supermarkets. Apparently, they're still privately owned by the Trucchi family. Then there's Market Basket, which is going to turn into it's own shit show very shortly.
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terminalzero Mar 31, 2026 +6
> In southern New England, specifically southern Mass, we have some Trucchi's Supermarkets. texas has HEB, and it's one of the few corporations I'd preserve if I was king because they *rule*
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SEA_tide Apr 1, 2026 +2
Didn't Market Basket already have a similar controversy a number of years ago? Maybe the upcoming changes will modernize the employee uniforms and bring self checkout.
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IntroductionCivil122 Mar 31, 2026 -4
Kroger owns half of those lol. They are one of the largest retailer corporations in the country
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sump_daddy Mar 31, 2026 +29
\> Kroger owns half of those lol.  Ah, i have some news that might interest you... Every single one is owned by Kroger (also, thats the joke)
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punkasstubabitch Mar 31, 2026 +3
And who are the people at the top of all this? How much more wealth do they need?
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logos1020 Apr 1, 2026 +2
How much ya got?
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lexm Mar 31, 2026 +44
If unilever owns 65% of the company, that’s not a combination. It’s an acquisition.
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punkasstubabitch Mar 31, 2026 +27
What is the endgame of all this? We’re swinging right back into the Gilded Age but worse. Nobody gives a shit about antitrust or monopolies anymore at all.
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ToddlerPuncher5000 Mar 31, 2026 +25
Corporate feudalism veiled in nationalism. The swiss empire starves china via nestle.
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punkasstubabitch Apr 1, 2026 +2
Then the world currency will be Nestle Bucks. With the Nestle Qwik rabbit on the bills and coins
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squshy_puff Mar 31, 2026 +5
$4/gal sounds awesome right about now. I just filled up and the cheapest place in town is $5.20/gal
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BeIgnored Mar 31, 2026 +9
Penzey's Spices is a great alternative to these types of conglomerates. They're small and super progressive, and their spices taste amazing. Most of their locations are in the Midwest, but they also do online orders. https://www.penzeys.com/locations/
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TheMoves Mar 31, 2026 +22
>The combined company will maintain McCormick's name Basically a type of fraud, it should be mandatory for all branding to be of the ultimate parent company for any product. I'm sick of companies pretending to actually be a bunch of small companies, giving an illusion of competition in the market. If Company A buys 50.1% of Company B I need Company A branding on the company formsely known as Company B's products within 6 months
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AwakePlatypus Mar 31, 2026 -3
> Basically a type of fraud, it should be mandatory for all branding to be of the ultimate parent company for any product. I mean...it will be though? Anything under Unilever will now fall under the McCormick brand.
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TheMoves Mar 31, 2026 +8
No I'm saying they shouldn't be able to market *anything* under the McCormick brand because McCormick doesn't actually exist anymore in any real sense, Unilever just kills companies and elders their skin which is exactly what they're planning to do here. It's to fool people into thinking nothing has changed and that they're still buying the same product as they enshittify it, lowering their cost and the quality of the product while still trading under the name of a company that didn't do that.
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SEA_tide Apr 1, 2026 -2
Besides being legally separate companies anyway, it's possible for companies to be run independently of their ownership or to retain the leadership of the acquired company. Companies can also change names to better reflect their new business. Also, who is the ultimate parent company? Public companies are typically owned by many thousands of individuals.
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NotYetMashedPotato Mar 31, 2026 +2
*starts chainsaw*
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Atakir Mar 31, 2026 +1
Gas has been around $5/gal for the last few weeks in Phoenix area for regular. Diesel is over $6/gal.
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xeoron Apr 1, 2026 +1
It is 6 a gallon in my town today 
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imnojezus Mar 31, 2026 +163
One step closer to the Taco Bell singularity.
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Professional_Echo907 Mar 31, 2026 +38
Somebody better tell me how to use the three seashells. 👀
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Electrical-Bid-8043 Mar 31, 2026 +31
He doesn't know how to use the 3 shells 🤣
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toughtacos Apr 1, 2026 +3
I just realised I’m going to remove the toilet paper from my bathroom next time I’m having friends over and put three seashells in there.
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gruthunder Mar 31, 2026 +3
Or Pizza Hut internationally*
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chrispy_t Mar 31, 2026
How? It’s 2 companies before and it will be 2 companies after? This is jus unilever dropping food to pivot to their core business
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fyrefox45 Mar 31, 2026 +402
I can't wait for the great Unilever Monsanto war of 2037. What an abysmal timeline we're on.
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Ok-Seaworthiness4488 Mar 31, 2026 +72
Didn't Bayer buy Monsato some years ago?
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fyrefox45 Mar 31, 2026 +41
So they did.
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bluskale Mar 31, 2026 +16
 No problem! You just dump all your ~~poisonous insects~~ subsidiaries into a jar and only the strongest one will emerge!
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Prophet_Of_Helix Mar 31, 2026 -3
Don’t worry, Bayern’s small Potatoes anyways. The corporate wars will be Walmart vs Amazon
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Hitman3256 Mar 31, 2026 +8
Closer and closer to cyberpunk
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TakeItUpA_Nacho Mar 31, 2026 +6
RemindMe! 11 years
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shifty_coder Mar 31, 2026 +4
Can’t wait for all restaurants to become Taco Bell
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Killer_Sloth Mar 31, 2026 +2
Corpo wars should stay in cyberpunk fiction only 😭
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axonxorz Mar 31, 2026 +1
Perfect timing, right before the 2038 problem.
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Loqol Mar 31, 2026 +67
Penzey's, you are my only hope.
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vankirk Mar 31, 2026 +22
To the rescue! Tbh, I switched to Penzy's a long time ago. I went to their retail location in AZ and I felt like I died and went to heaven.
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gw_epyon Mar 31, 2026 +9
I love Penzeys quality but not the price
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Decent-Ganache7647 Mar 31, 2026 +9
They would kill themselves and their business before they allows some multinational conglomerate to touch their spices. 
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davidswinton Mar 31, 2026 +195
Or we could work to elect people who will enforce and improve anti trust laws and regulations!
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Bituulzman Mar 31, 2026 +58
We need another Teddy Roosevelt.
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Patman350 Mar 31, 2026 +40
It will never happen in our lifetime. Anyone to the left of allowing the rich to hunt poor people for sport are called communists.
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Mrchristopherrr Mar 31, 2026 +29
That was true in teddy’s time, too. That was the proper Guilded Age where things were comically evil compared to today. Through some back-room shenanigans he was pushed to being McKinleys VP. They wanted him out of the governor’s chair and proposed him as an olive branch to the progressive wing of the Republican Party. Then McKinley died and suddenly America had a progressive president. He was never really supposed to get to the big chair.
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SoftlySpokenPromises Mar 31, 2026 +6
We need at least a dozen Teddys at this point.
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Decent-Ganache7647 Mar 31, 2026 +12
I miss Lena Khan! 
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TheSpatulaOfLove Mar 31, 2026 +5
That ship sailed decades ago.
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davidswinton Mar 31, 2026 +28
Cynicism isn’t really helpful. The US started at zero in the late 1800’s and can find a way to relegislate
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TheSpatulaOfLove Mar 31, 2026 +7
You may not think it’s helpful, but for me it is cathartic. I’m burnt out trying to convince others to give a shit. Until people are inconvenienced enough, things will not change.
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Accujack Mar 31, 2026 +1
How about just people who enforce the laws we already have, and also don't r*** children?
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JMccovery Mar 31, 2026
Now why would we go and do that? Think of the poor C-suite executives that will be unable to buy their third vacation home, or those that have to settle for a small yacht! That's not the *American Way™*!
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olderdeafguy1 Mar 31, 2026 +37
So, up the prices and spread the profits to more corporate assholes?
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Muckraker2025 Mar 31, 2026 +21
I think you meant "up the prices and spread the profits to ~~more~~ fewer corporate assholes" since they're merging with an already-huger company.
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Masterweedo Mar 31, 2026 +5
More assholes? You forget about the layoffs after this deal closes, there will be more money to go around, and less people for it go around to.
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NativePlantEnjoyer Apr 1, 2026 +2
But what about trickle down economics? /s
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here4dambivalence Mar 31, 2026 +35
Mmmm will be watching for the new and improved Old Bay with 290% more sodium and 74% less spice. Can't wait!
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defroach84 Mar 31, 2026 +117
When all of these consolidations happen, and we only have a choice of Sysco-McCormick-Unilever-Pepsi-Coke-Frito Lays conglomerate, it'll make it easy to find the local brands.
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Icy-Bunch609 Mar 31, 2026 +84
No it won't.  You will have local brands buying Sysco-McCormick-Unilever-Pepsi-Coke-Frito Lay and putting a different label on it.
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Protean_Protein Mar 31, 2026 +25
This is already the case. The vast majority of food is distributed by a handful of companies to every other brand you know—Sysco is the biggest, but there’s also US Foods and PFG (the former is considering a takeover of the latter), Gordon Food Service… Amazon even has their own distributor now. But these foods all come from centralized warehouses before being labeled with whatever restaurant or grocery brand.
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Silvervirage Mar 31, 2026 +11
As someone that works in a restaraunt, no one that eats anywhere should want that. US Foods is basically the Dollar General brand of food, its cheapish sure but its quality is absolutely abysmal. Systolic is at least closer to... like Walmart Great Value brand which is still bad. PFG is.... fine, but their service f****** sucks (multiple people I know who work in restaurants said that their kitchen dropped them because they would lie about what they could send them and then end up being way overstocked, they couldnt reliably talk to a rep, and then we got rid of them because they would only send one of two drivers, one who has never showered once in his life and we could smell him throughout the whole f****** restaraunt all f****** day after a delivery, and another guy who literally stored some of our drop off in a trashcan and then knocked it over and broke half the things in it, and never got it all comped) So best case scenario is every restaraunt you go to will have the same exact food supply and it will be poor quality.
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Protean_Protein Mar 31, 2026 +9
I think what would surprise most people who haven’t worked in the industry is that a lot of food that looks like it was prepped and cooked in the restaurant, and that you’re charged a price for that should reflect that, is actually just pre-prepared frozen packaged shit of the same quality (or even literally the exact same product) you could buy at the grocery store and warm up in the oven yourself. North American food supply is so corporatized and broken at this point that it’s frightening when you actually look into it and realize it’s almost impossible to escape. The same suppliers are sending the same fresh produce to every grocery store… so if a lot is contaminated or mishandled, then they’re all fucked. Obviously we need some version of industrial food distribution so that Minneapolis and Quebec City can have fresh bananas. But the way things stand, it’s so far beyond that…
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Gunter5 Mar 31, 2026 +9
Same thing happened with the chicken and pork industry and beef processing... the savings from all these mergers will trickle down lol Its almost comical how the messes got duped into voting against their best interest because a few regulations were mildly inconvenient
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Hippopotasaurus-Rex Mar 31, 2026 +5
Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.
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coys21 Mar 31, 2026 +5
Pepsico and frito lays are already combined.
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Fly_Rodder Mar 31, 2026 +24
A company I used to work with had an office not far from McCormick in Maryland. It smells amazing on some days and some days it's overpowering. Lemon pepper day was a tough one.
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your_lost_chapstick Mar 31, 2026 +9
I got lucky and stopped at Wegmans on what had to be apple pie spice mixing day. I got out of the car and felt like I was hit in the face with Thanksgiving. I've never had it happen again, but I remain hopeful!
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Whoru87 Mar 31, 2026 +8
Proctor and Gamble is right next door to mccormick. They have to communicate their schedules with each other. I believe a very large batch of hand cream was tainted with the smell of garlic years ago.
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jenniehaniver Mar 31, 2026 +6
I used to work at an office in Brooklyn that was downwind from a plant in NJ that makes almost all the artificial flavoring for US brands. They had some kind of leak once and the whole neighborhood smelled like glazed doughnuts for two weeks. It was nice for the first couple of days but it was several months before I could stand to eat a doughnut again.
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Sarnsereg Mar 31, 2026 +18
There's some serious anti monopoly busting that's going to have to happen once trump is out of office. This is crazy the mergers that have been allowed to happen.
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PeeledGrapePie Apr 1, 2026 +2
The monopolization of America is one thing trump doesn’t need to get credit for. We have done a woeful job in every presidency of stopping these behemoth corporations combine. Nice to hope it gets better at some point though , I suppose.
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XennialQueen Mar 31, 2026 +16
Penzeys, people. Better quality and a company with a soul.
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sheky Mar 31, 2026 +14
Here come the spice wars
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kcnz17 Mar 31, 2026 +15
Another reason to not buy c**** McCormick spices, the irony of them saying they are the global flavor leader is not lost on me when all they do is pump manufactured flavor into their spices. I’m sticking with the little guys…. Spice house, Penzeys, also heard spicewalla is decent quality as well.
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Previous-Height4237 Mar 31, 2026
McCormick's entire gimmick is they overprice their spices to appear premium and the vast majority of American consumers eat that shit up.
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Stereo-soundS Mar 31, 2026 -1
I've just started buying Great Value for my garlic and onion powders.
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Odubhthaigh Mar 31, 2026 +12
Oh great. Now my cilantro is gonna taste like soap.
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Loud_Traffic_1487 Mar 31, 2026 +11
Unilever sucks ass.  They've brought brought down the quality of some previously beloved foods.  What they did with Ben and Jerry's was disappointing. Looks like I'll be scratching McCormick brands off my baking ingredient list.
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AiricaFyresong Mar 31, 2026 +2
Same! I've already axed Unilever across the board. Sad I have to add McCormick to the list.
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4RCH43ON Mar 31, 2026 +19
I want you to squeeze, McCormick, squeeze! He who controls the spice, controls the Uniliverse! Dun, dun, dun, dune…
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ambientocclusion Mar 31, 2026 +7
Five dollars for a bottle of dried oregano? Sure, bend me over.
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Colecoman1982 Mar 31, 2026 +7
Well, now that they're merged with Unilever, how would you like 50% filler mixed into your $5 bottle of dried "oregano"?
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Starkville Mar 31, 2026 +6
More enshittification ahead! yay
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HUT2Moon Mar 31, 2026 +7
Once Trump/Bondi fired the Antitrust Chief (AAG), floodgates opened for companies to pursue mergers that would be blocked under any other administration. Yes, your prices will go and competition will be reduced. MAGA!
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Watcher0363 Mar 31, 2026 +6
In a few months, I will have to start checking the ingredients label on spices. I am sure they will start to read like. "Cellulose, garlic less than 1% by volume"
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GB715 Mar 31, 2026 +5
Great. I use a lot of McCormick products and you know quality is going to go down.
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Gloomy-Insurance-739 Mar 31, 2026 +6
Monopoly laws we don't need those...
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KLGChaos Apr 1, 2026 +5
And the monopolies just keep a-comin'.
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river_tree_nut Mar 31, 2026 +5
Oh, this will be great for everyone (who owns their stocks). Enshitification incoming!
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Old-n-Wrinkly Mar 31, 2026 +6
Geez…I remember when my grandfather used to mail us the new soaps from his employer, little old Lever Brothers, in Hammond, Indiana. And I’d drive by the McCormick building on my way to work in Towson, MD. The world has become unrecognizable to many of us geezers.
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DayleD Mar 31, 2026 +5
Whenever possible buy spices in bulk online. The price for a little bottle of McCormick is nearly the price per pound.
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shfiven Mar 31, 2026 +5
In 6 more months there will only be one company.
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NegitiveKarma Mar 31, 2026 +4
I hope they don’t close everything down in Hunt Valley. Worked for McCormick as a temp awhile back had to sign an NDA that wouldn’t give up the recipe for KFC’s 11 herbs and spices. They would also just give away industrial sized containers of spice and other stuff for free all the time. Had more hot sauce and spices than I knew what to do with. They announced layoffs right as I left so I’m guessing financially they haven’t been doing great and it isn’t getting better.
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Lowca Mar 31, 2026 +4
Can we just skip to the part where 3 people on earth own everything and set all the rules? This long drawn out slog towards that inevitable dystopia is killing me. Then we can start working on the next innovative way to screw the working man. /s
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melancholy_dood Mar 31, 2026 +3
*”McCormick will buy Unilever’s food business for a combination of cash and equity, in a deal that values the Unilever unit at nearly $45 billion, the two food companies announced.”* So McCormick is now an even bigger food (spice and condiment) company….
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Intelligent_Donkey21 Mar 31, 2026 +3
The Spice extends life. The Spice expands consciousness. The Spice must flow.
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Akimbo_Zap_Guns Apr 1, 2026 +5
Time to make my own vanilla extract lmao
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InclementImmigrant Mar 31, 2026 +3
Great... I'll just continue to buy from Penzeys.
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LengthClean Mar 31, 2026 +3
Get raw spices and make your own. Get back to making things from scratch. Taco seasoning is very easy to make. Hell with processed spices and food!
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RazsterOxzine Mar 31, 2026 +3
Glad I started growing my own herbs and spices. I've managed to grow all I need for the last 10 years and have enough to share with family. Fk helping these mega corpses anymore.
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releaseepsteinfiles1 Apr 1, 2026 +3
In a few years, just a few corporations will own every thing.
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hackingkafka Mar 31, 2026 +4
He who controls the spice controls the universe
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GullibleDetective Mar 31, 2026 +2
Woo love anticompetition government
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MeasurementNo0 Mar 31, 2026 +2
Headed by Paul atriedes
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Colecoman1982 Mar 31, 2026 +2
I'm pretty sure Unilever is a Harkonnen company.
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Diligent-Taro856 Mar 31, 2026 +2
Another brand to cut out of my life.
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itsmechickadee Mar 31, 2026 +1
Not looking forward to more monopoly and how this might screw up their spices
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NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 Mar 31, 2026 +1
Time to break up big spice.
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Dazslueski Mar 31, 2026 +1
Late stage capitalism is so fun isn’t it?
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BellesCotes Mar 31, 2026 +1
I remember when McCormick bought Canada's biggest spice company (Shwartz) in 1984, and then immediately shut everything down. Bastards...
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clubmedschool Mar 31, 2026 +1
NEW YORK -- Spice and flavorings company McCormick announced on Tuesday that it’s combining with Unilever’s foods division, which includes household names like Hellmann’s and Knorr. Damn, now [this video](https://youtu.be/ewTMo3As4_w?si=4Ep9GFIgPSCqNwII) won't be as funny anymore
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MagicBoyUK Mar 31, 2026 +1
If they screw with the Marmite recipe there will be trouble…
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Long_Advertising_737 Apr 1, 2026 +1
McCormick ruined Cholula hot sauce.  I can only imagine their product lines getting even worse after this goes through.
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Chaos-Cortex Apr 1, 2026 +1
God America f****** blows .
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Grandmas_Fat_Choad Mar 31, 2026 +1
Yay more poison for the people
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fallenouroboros Mar 31, 2026
Had to stare at “unilever” for a sec. Read it as unaliver at first
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zerosmith86 Mar 31, 2026 -2
Unaliver. So were are dead!
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