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Oregon joins lawsuit to block Kroger-Albertsons supermarket merger

By Alina Selyukh, Oregon Public Broadcasting,

2024-02-26

U.S. regulators and nine state attorneys general, including here in Oregon, are suing to stop the $24.6 billion merger of Kroger and Albertsons, the country’s two largest supermarket chains.

Kroger owns Fred Meyer, which was founded in Portland in 1922.

The companies have presented the deal as existential to surviving in the grocery business today. But the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Oregon on Monday, Feb. 26, says it’s anticompetitive.

Attorneys general of Arizona, California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming, along with Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, are joining the Federal Trade Commission in its lawsuit to block the deal.

Oregon Public Broadcasting is a news partner of the Pamplin Media Group. Find the original story here .

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