Biggest question from Kroger-Albertsons trials: What’s a grocery store?
At the heart of the fight to block the $24.6 billion merger is the debate over how Americans buy their groceries.
Would a Kroger and Albertsons merger drive grocery prices up or down? The answer is complicated
The Federal Trade Commission and several states’ attorneys general, including California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, say the deal ...
PBS4d
Why federal regulators want to stop grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons from merging
What could be the largest grocery store merger in U.S. history is at a do-or-die point, with closing arguments this week in a ...
Blocking Kroger and Albertsons’ Merger Won’t Fix Americans’ Grocery Problems
Blocking the Kroger-Albertsons’ merger deal won’t fix Americans’ queasy feelings when they get to the checkout register at ...
A state’s experience with grocery chain mergers spurs a fight to stop Albertsons’ deal with Kroger
ANN DURBIN Lawyers for Washington state will have past grocery chain mergers – and their negative consequences – in mind when ...
The Kroger Albertsons merger hearing has ended. What happens next?
PORTLAND, Ore. – Attorneys for the Federal Trade Commission and Kroger and Albertsons ended their three-week court battle the ...
Kroger-Albertsons merger: Market, analysts say upcoming court decision is likely to halt deal
Analysts and the stock market are weighing in on what they expect to happen as closing arguments have wrapped up in Kroger Co ...
'Consumers depend on competition': Kroger, FTC fight to the end on Albertsons merger
“Consumers depend on competition,” FTC attorney Susan Musser told the court, dismissing the grocers’ argument that consumers ...
The Denver Post4d
A state’s experience with grocery chain mergers spurs a fight to stop Albertsons’ deal with Kroger
Albertsons and Kroger own more than 300 grocery stores in the state and control more than half of grocery sales there. Under a plan to ease regulators’ concerns, Kroger and Albertsons would sell ...