We Discovered Why Your Grocery Bill is So High

Safeway, Ralphs, Smiths, Harris Teeters, Shaws, Kings, Randalls, and about 25 other brands, will all be owned by a single company if the Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through. And that’s really bad news for the prices you pay.

To put it bluntly, this deal is an antitrust travesty. In a time of record food prices and skyrocketing corporate profits, it should be criminal – in the moral sense - to even suggest it. And it might actually be criminal in a legal sense too.

We spoke with a former Vice President of Whole Foods to unpack what the proposed merger means for you.
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