Attorneys for Kroger and Albertsons insisted the deal would boost competition by strengthening both companies as a unified ...

A decision on the proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons could be coming soon as the Federal Trade Commission hopes to ...

Closing arguments are coming up in the Federal Trade Commission's attempt to block the proposed merger of supermarket chains ...

Key Takeaways The legal battle over the Federal Trade Commission's efforts to halt the $24.6 billion Kroger-Albertsons merger ...

The critical hearing in federal court into Kroger’s proposed $25 billion takeover of Albertsons will stretch into a fourth ...

Next month marks two years since Kroger announced it would acquire Albertsons in a $24.6 billion merger. But that deal has been waylaid since February, when the Federal Trade Commission sued to block ...

The federal agency’s attorneys highlighted how the deal would impact local communities while the grocers’ lawyers said the agency was out of touch with the realities the industry and shoppers face.

The largest ever supermarket merger was first proposed in October, 2022. Kroger announced that it planned to buy rival ...

Kroger argued its merger with Albertsons would lead to immediately lower prices for consumers, but the Federal Trade ...

We remain committed to closing the merger, because it will provide meaningful and measurable benefits for customers, ...

Lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission and for the supermarket chains ... request for a preliminary injunction to block the $24.6 billion deal. Kroger and Albertsons argued their merger would ...

The case is one of three challenging the $24.6 billion deal, which was announced nearly two years ago. The Federal Trade ...