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Using distinct but overlapping business models, Amazon, Costco, and Walmart captured over half of recent growth in retailing, and are squeezing smaller rivals hard.

Walmart CFO John David Rainey explains why a growing number of customers are turning to them for their grocery needs. Rainey noted the new store experience is part of the reason.

Under the merger agreement, Kroger and Albertsons — who compete in 22 states including Arizona — agreed to sell 579 stores in places where their locations overlap to C&S Wholesale Grocers ...

A recent letter writer thinks that the federal government is hurting consumers by blocking the now dead Kroger-Albertsons merger, (“ Readers respond: Blocking grocery merger hurts regular people, ” ...

Dec. 11, the day after a federal judge in Oregon and a state judge in Washington blocked a merger between two supermarket ...

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(AP) — Albertsons is giving up on its merger with Kroger and it is suing the grocery chain, saying it didn’t do enough to secure regulatory approval for the $24.6 billion agreement. The move ...

During the heyday of American antitrust rulings, from the 1930s to the ’70s, few industries faced as much scrutiny as the grocery sector. In 1949, for example, the Justice Department won a landmark ...