During the three-week federal trial in a Portland courtroom, the FTC and the companies painted differing views of the grocery market. Kroger and Albertsons described their merger as existential to ...

CINCINNATI ( Cincinnati Business Courier) - Albertsons Cos. Inc. has levied additional accusations against Kroger Co. in a ...

The FTC evaluates mergers within an industry using a gauge known as the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. A merger that raises the HHI over a certain threshold — which the Kroger-Albertsons merger ...

Albertsons’ response to Kroger’s counterclaims comes after the grocer sued Kroger for allegedly breaching the merger contract ...

The FTC has countered Kroger and Albertsons are traditional “one-stop” grocers with a broader selection of goods and shouldn’t be allowed to combine because those nontraditional rivals are a ...

This week, Albertsons Cos. filed a pointed rebuttal to Kroger’s counterclaims, rejecting accusations that it secretly worked with C&;S Wholesale Grocers to pursue its own divestiture strategy, and ...

In its response to Kroger’s counterclaims, filed late last week, Albertsons asserts that “No Albertsons employee participated ...

Shoppers at some Kroger-owned grocery stores paid full price for items labeled as discounted due to expired shelf tags, ...

At its first meeting with the FTC, Kroger proposed shedding just 238 stores, Albertsons said. Kroger subsequently offered to divest 413 stores to C&S, later upping the total to 541, then 579 outlets.

Kroger said it told Albertsons it was planning to re-engage with the FTC after President Donald Trump's election because it thought the FTC under Trump would be less hostile to mergers.

The two largest pure-play grocers in the country wanted to combine into one. Now, they want to score points against each ...