The failure of the Kroger-Albertsons merger exposed serious problems at QFC, a leader in Seattle's grocery industry before it ...

Kroger’s $ ... was Kroger’s and Albertsons’ proposal to preserve competition in markets where their stores overlapped, experts said. The grocers said they would sell off 579 stores for ...

But the FTC says a merger would give the companies much more power over contract ... weighed the plan by Kroger and Albertsons to sell hundreds of their stores to a firm called C&S Wholesale ...

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Under the merger agreement, Kroger and Albertsons would sell 579 stores in places where their locations overlap to C&S Wholesale Grocers, a New Hampshire-based supplier to independent supermarkets ...

The companies had argued at trial that selling 579 of the stores, particularly in western U.S. states where Kroger and Albertsons are located near each other, would preserve competition.

Kroger and Albertsons countered that they needed to merge to compete with Walmart, Costco and Amazon, and that selling off 579 stores would ... like milk and eggs more than necessary during ...

More than two years later ... Grocers acceptable to regulators. expand Kroger, in its quest to buy Albertsons, had offered to sell 579 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers to quash antitrust concerns.