SACRAMENTO, the United States, Sep. 11 (Xinhua) -- As two U.S. grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons push forward with their proposed 24.6 billion-U.S.-dollar merger, consumer advocates and regulators are raising alarms about potential impacts on grocery prices and market competition.
The deal, combining the second- and fourth-largest grocery chains in the United States, was under scrutiny in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seeks to block the largest supermarket merger in U.S. history.
