It says Keene, N.H.-based C&S Wholesale Grocers, which has agreed to buy 579 stores to retain competition in areas where Kroger and Albertsons overlap, isn’t a viable competitor. And it says ...
Three judges in three different states are now deliberating the fate of Kroger’s proposed $25 billion takeover of rival ...
Competition, pricing and the fate of Albertsons were key points of contention in the three court battles that unfolded over a nearly two-month period.
Grocery workers are stuck watching the cases unfold as the retailers battle regulators in three separate court cases.
Corporate leaders anticipate a flurry of deals once Donald Trump returns to the White House. The grocery industry seems ...
Kroger and Albertsons are the two largest grocery companies ... “C&S’s strategy over the last two decades has been to buy stores and then flip them to their wholesale customers or close ...
Kroger and Albertsons argue the merger is necessary ... allegedly showed C&S isn’t committed to keeping the stores it buys. Instead, it’s looking to use the purchase to shore up its much ...
That’s exactly why it’s so dangerous to let this company buy these stores ... going to accomplish what Albertsons can’t?” Matt Wolf, an attorney representing Kroger, argued that the ...
First announced in October 2022, Cincinnati-based Kroger wants to buy all outstanding shares of Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons, adding most of its employees and stores to its supermarket operation.
The following five workers are among some 60,000 Albertsons and Kroger employees who could wind up on the payroll of C&S Wholesale after it agreed to buy 579 stores from the two merging chains.