January 22, 2025 – Grocery Dive recently interviewed Jeffery Cross on the potential shift in the Federal Trade Commission’s stance on supermarket mergers and acquisitions under the leadership of new FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson.
Cross noted, “While the Trump administration is widely expected to be more friendly to corporate combinations than the previous administration, grocers should expect courts to pay close attention to how judges evaluated the agency’s challenge of the Kroger-Albertsons merger in the event regulators push back on future grocery industry mergers going forward.”
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