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C&S Wholesale Grocers has filed a lawsuit against Kroger after the failed $25 billion takeover of rival Albertsons that was ...

The grocery distributor and wholesaler alleges Kroger took the lead on the merger and then botched the handling of regulators ...

As the owner of 7-Eleven considers a potential deal with fellow titan Couche-Tard, its executives say the failed supermarket ...

The wholesaler alleges that the grocer has declined to pay it an agreed-upon fee related to the failure of the ...

siding with regulators and state attorneys general who argued the acquisition and resulting merger would violate antitrust laws and be anticompetitive. Kroger and Albertsons each called off the ...

The grocery chain laid off employees in February and just issued another round of roughly 200 layoffs this week.

Now, Albertsons is suing Kroger for billions of dollars, alleging that Kroger’s efforts at divestiture — selling the 579 stores to C&S — were insufficient and led to the failure of the merger.

Kroger abandoned its planned acquisition of rival grocer Albertsons in December, but in the courts, fighting over the deal continues. Food distributor C&S Wholesale Grocers is suing Kroger for ...

In the lawsuit, C&S claims Kroger didn't pay the $125 million termination fee in the event the merger deal with Albertsons was cancelled, per a WSJ report.

In December, federal and state courts blocked the attempted merger between two of Colorado’s grocery store giants: Albertsons (Safeway) and Kroger (King Soopers, City Market). The merger was ...