{"id":2288,"date":"2024-08-19T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ftcs-kroger-albertsons-suit-premised-on-fanciful-definition-of-grocery-market-dissenting-states-say\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:23:15","slug":"ftcs-kroger-albertsons-suit-premised-on-fanciful-definition-of-grocery-market-dissenting-states-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ftcs-kroger-albertsons-suit-premised-on-fanciful-definition-of-grocery-market-dissenting-states-say\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC&#8217;s Kroger-Albertsons Suit Premised on &#8216;Fanciful&#8217; Definition of Grocery Market, Dissenting States Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Attorneys general from Alabama, Georgia, Iowa and Ohio are urging a federal judge to allow Kroger\u2019s $24.6 billion acquisition of rival Albertsons to go through, arguing\u00a0that the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s opposition to the deal is premised on an overly narrow definition of the grocery market that\u2019s detached from reality and contradicts its own precedent.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.ord.178374\/gov.uscourts.ord.178374.264.0_2.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amicus brief<\/a> filed in Oregon federal court Friday, the attorneys general say the merger actually is \u201cprocompetitive\u201d because \u201cit can be expected to strengthen Kroger\u2019s ability to compete more effectively in the wide-open market for consumers\u2019 retail grocery dollars,\u201d a free-for-all that includes far larger companies such as Walmart and Amazon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys general from Alabama, Georgia, Iowa and Ohio are urging a federal judge to allow Kroger\u2019s $24.6 billion acquisition of rival Albertsons to go through, arguing\u00a0that the Federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2424,3019,3017,523,3018,3015,1923,3016,1117,339],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-definition","tag-dissenting","tag-fanciful","tag-ftcs","tag-grocery","tag-krogeralbertsons","tag-market","tag-premised","tag-states","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}