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The smash and grab of Kroger-Albertsons

by Matt Stoller mattstoller.substack.com published 2022-10-18

The Kroger-Albertsons supermarket deal is uglier than you might expect. The "special cash division" of $4 billion may be intended to get around antitrust enforcers.

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