The Germans Are Escalating America’s Grocery Price War
- U.S. price war is being fueled by pair of German food chains
- ‘Seismic’ competition expected to get more intense in 2018
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The price war in the American grocery aisle is getting more intense. And believe it or not, the reason isn’t Amazon.com Inc.
Amazon’s debut as a brick-and-mortar grocery chain last year sent tremors through the supermarket industry, with Kroger Co. and other established players losing billions in market value. But with its plans for Whole Foods developing slowly, Amazon is looking like less of a short-term threat.