1. Channel: Grocery

Kroger and Albertsons plan to divest stores to get FTC merger approval

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Kroger and Albertsons are looking at selling between 250 and 300 stores in a strategy to gain approval from the Federal Trade Commission for their planned merger. The two supermarket giants operate 4,996 stores combined.

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