In an historic ruling for labor and antitrust advocates, a federal judge blocked the $25 billion merger of grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons.

Under the merger agreement, Kroger and Albertsons — who compete in 22 states — agreed to sell 579 stores in places where ...

(Sankaran stood to receive a $43 million severance payment if the deal had go through.) Albertsons’s lawsuit, filed in Delaware’s Court of Chancery, alleges Kroger broke the companies' merger ...

A merger seemed like an ideal solution for Kroger and Albertsons ... “The [FTC’s] concern was, should this merger go through, that competition would be gone, and once competition is gone ...

On Wednesday, Albertsons blamed Kroger for not trying harder to appease wary regulators and therefore breaching its merger agreement ... is 'doom spending' its way through the holidays.

Kroger and Albertsons' plan for the largest ... closing stores and exiting certain markets if the merger with Kroger didn’t go through. “I would have to consider that,” he said.

Jewel-Osco’s parent Albertsons said it had filed a ... closing stores and exiting certain markets if the merger with Kroger didn’t go through. “I would have to consider that,” he said.

The FTC, joined by eight states and the District of Columbia, argued that allowing the Kroger-Albertsons deal to go forward would ... However, if the merger goes through, several hundred stores ...

Kroger and Albertsons’ plan for the largest ... closing stores and exiting certain markets if the merger with Kroger didn’t go through. “I would have to consider that,” he said.

Kroger and Albertsons’ plan for the largest ... closing stores and exiting certain markets if the merger with Kroger didn’t go through. “I would have to consider that,” he said.