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Would a Kroger and Albertsons merger drive grocery prices up or down? The answer is complicated.
As grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons push to carry out the largest proposed supermarket merger in U.S. history, the companies’ executives have made a contentious claim. Joining forces, they say, will push food prices down, not drive them up as U.S. …