Kroger, the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, would buy Albertsons, the second-largest such operator, ...

Grocery chain Albertsons called off its $25 billion blockbuster merger with Kroger Wednesday after a federal judge halted the ...

Antitrust experts say a few core issues prompted the judges to say no the merger, ultimately dooming the deal.

Albertsons’ breach-of-contract claims, filed in a Delaware chancery court Dec. 11, allege Cincinnati-based Kroger “put itself ...

University of Houston professor Steven Craig said the Krogers-Albertsons merger falling apart is a good development for ...

Albertsons announced Wednesday it is pulling out of its plans to merge with Kroger, citing two court rulings on Tuesday ...

In parallel, same-day rulings, a federal and state court blocked The Kroger Company’s $24.6 billion proposed acquisition of the Albertsons ...

The supermarket chain had tried to join forces with Kroger, but judges sided with federal and state regulators who charged ...

Albertsons is now saying that Kroger didn’t do enough to secure regulatory approval for the $24.6 billion merger deal.

Albertsons is suing Kroger for breach of contract and accusing it of failing to exercise its “best efforts” to get regulatory ...

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

Kroger and Albertsons' plan for the largest U.S. supermarket merger in history crumbled Wednesday, with Albertsons pulling ...