The impact on prices, and the American consumer, was a key point in the FTC's arguments against the merger of Kroger and Albertsons. Now that the merger has been called off, what's next?

Atlanta, Georgia, Kroger. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A Federal Judge and a King County Judge in Washington state have blocked the $25 billion merger of ...

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The grocery store operators had said they’d be able to cut prices by combining, but regulators and courts disagreed. Now they ...

The companies said a merger would help them better compete with big retailers like Walmart, Costco and Amazon.Under the merger agreement, Kroger and Albertsons — who compete in 22 states ...

Amazon and Target, raising prices would be a foolish move, he said. No one expects that, particularly the two grocery chains. "The merger is dead," Ross said. That was made clear when Albertsons ...

A recent letter writer thinks that the federal government is hurting consumers by blocking the now dead Kroger-Albertsons merger, (“ Readers respond: Blocking grocery merger hurts regular people, ” ...

Amazon and other companies that sell a wider range of goods. The merger would eliminate head-to-head competition between Albertsons and Kroger, potentially raising prices for consumers ...

From the start, Cincinnati-based Kroger and Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons said the merger was necessary to stay efficient and ...