Source: HH Media
A challenge to the merger of the country’s two largest grocery store chains goes to trial Monday — the Biden-Harris administration’s latest and perhaps most consequential bid to combat high grocery prices.
The administration sued to stop the $25 billion deal to merge supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons in February, arguing that it would lead to higher food costs and fewer and worse jobs for unionized workers. They now have a chance to make their case before a federal judge in Oregon over the course of the three-week trial.
Either way, the judge’s ruling — expected in the weeks following the trial — won’t have any immediate impact on the prices shoppers see in the grocery store aisles. But should the court block the merger, it would offer Vice President Kamala Harris a prime example of how Democrats are working to lower costs for everyday Americans, a top issue in the presidential campaign.
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