What is your major concern about big-business mergers?

Mergers rarely work in favour of consumers.
They restrict choice.
And because BIG business mergers are expensive, the cost of them is often revisited on the consumer !

See water/electricity/phone privatization in the UK for proof of that.

monopoly power is ALWAYS abusive.
the more of these mergers, the fewer choices we have
what if ther were only 2 restaurants?
Mc Donalds or taco bell
we have, especially in media, has resulted in the loss of Journalism in favor of the bottom line.

we once had hundreads of cell phone companies, Now We HAve 4
[i]the others? all rent their signal from one of those 4[/i]
9 companies control over 98% of ALL MEDIA.
is this a good thing?

the only good thing of capitalism is the competition... mergers remove that competition

Getting rid of products I liked or price gouging cause they can

The direction the business will take;

Fed-Ex is planning to merge with UPS. They're going to call it "Fed-Up."

Hammond Organ is going to merge with Xerox. They're going to make reproductive organs.

This economic system (neoliberalism) is designed to.concentrate power and wealth.......mergers/monopolies are an inevitable consequences

Price hikes, remodeling, new management, layoffs, business completely changed...

The inevitable layoffs for "efficiencies" etc

Who I send my payment to.

The lack of lube