Excellent points, Kalle Pihlajasaari. I replied elsewhere on this thread pointing out the largest two grocery store chains in the US are trying to merge and recently one of those chains (Safeway/Albertsons owned by private equity group Cerberus named for the three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hell) announced it would also like to purchase Sprouts, a smaller chain. Federal Antitrust regulators are nowhere to be found and a state District Attorney is feigning opposition while the media tells viewers "It would be a good thing and would likely lead to lower prices". Sadly, most Americans never learned or forgot the long history of monopolism and oligopolism.