Tag: ftc

The Kroger Co. and Albertsons Companies Inc. released the list of stores they plan to divest if their $25 billion acquisition plan is approved.

A day after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its findings that big national grocery chains exploited disruptions in the supply chain caused by the Covid pandemic to solidify their control over the market, exacerbating shortages for consumers and driving up grocery prices, the National Grocers Association is calling on key Congressional leaders to push for solutions to level the playing field.

The Federal Trade Commission today issued a report on the causes behind grocery supply chain disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite a 0.8 percent drop in comparable-store sales, Kroger executives were pleased with the retailer's fourth quarter 2023 financial results which showed year-over-year increases in overall sales, operating profit, and earnings per share. 

The climate for corporate mergers isn’t looking too good right now, as the supermarket retail chains Kroger and Albertsons have announced that they are delaying their highly publicized and extremely controversial merger,

The FTC has sent “warning letters to two trade associations and 12 registered dieticians and other online health influencers..." Here's why.

You have read it in every mutual funds prospectus: past performance does not guarantee future results.

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon Inc., September 26, alleging that the online retailer is a monopolist that uses anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power.

As I have said before, it is hard to imagine that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) will approve the controversial proposed merger of supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons.

I don’t read too many articles in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, but I read this one. It is entitled “Market Power and Inequality: The Antitrust Counterrevolution and Its Discontents,” by Lina Khan and Sandeep Vaheesan.