A recent letter writer thinks that the federal government is hurting consumers by blocking the now dead Kroger-Albertsons merger, (“Readers respond: Blocking grocery merger hurts regular people,” Dec.
The bureau estimates that just 3% of children 5 and older in each of those districts lived in a household with an income below the poverty line in 2023.
After a merger between Kroger and Albertsons, prices would go down for a while. However, once the dust settled, as with so many other mergers, prices would likely go up. Also, employees’ security ...