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Kroger, Albertsons Agree to Divest More Stores in Merger Effort
Shoppers at a Kroger grocery store in Dallas, Texas.
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Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos. agreed to divest more stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers, seeking to make their planned $24.6 billion merger more appealing to antitrust authorities.
The supermarket chains had agreed in September to sell 413 locations to C&S and have boosted the figure to 579, they said Monday.