Kroger filed a countersuit Tuesday against Albertsons over the bitter end to its planned acquisition of the Boise-based ...

Breakups are rarely easy, but the acrimony over a busted blockbuster deal can rival finger-pointing by the bitterest of ...

A federal court judge sided with the FTC in a ruling Dec. 10, 2024, to halt the deal, and a Washington state court judge issued a similar ruling the same day. Albertsons and Kroger separately ...

Reviewing both suits reveals the two companies fought fiercely over the divestiture deal and stopped cooperating long before ...

Just over a week after the CEOs of the two largest U.S. grocery companies testified in a U.S. District Court in Oregon to ...

One expert described the grocer as “ruddlerless,” noting that its core grocery business has suffered as the company has pursued alternative profits and pricey e-commerce investments.

Kroger is denying Albertsons’ claims that it didn’t do enough to ensure regulatory approval of the companies’ planned ...

The Cincinnati-based grocery giant released a statement on Tuesday accusing Albertsons of working secretly with its ...

Albertsons worked with C&S Wholesale Grocers to cast doubt on Kroger’s plan for securing regulatory clearance for the deal, ...

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Kroger and Albertsons first proposed the merger in 2022. They argued that combining would help them better compete with big retailers like Walmart and Costco. In December, judges in Washington and ...

Kroger is denying Albertsons’ claims that it didn’t ... But the Federal Trade Commission and two states — Washington and Colorado — sued to block the merger last year, saying it would ...