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      A customer shops for eggs at a Kroger grocery store on August 15, 2022 in Houston, Texas.

      Coalition Rises to 'Stop the Merger' of Kroger and Albertsons

      "This deal is an antitrust travesty and it must be stopped," says a letter urging the FTC to block the proposed $25 billion merger between two of the nation's largest grocery chains.

      Kenny Stancil
      Mar 14, 2023

      A progressive coalition of more than 100 unions and consumer advocacy groups from across the United States has come together to build the "Stop the Merger" campaign, a national and state-level effort to prevent Kroger from acquiring Albertsons and establishing the country's most powerful grocery cartel.

      On Tuesday, the coalition announced the launch of NoGroceryMerger.com, which includes information about the negative impacts of the proposed $25 billion merger between two of the nation's largest grocery chains, testimony from unionized grocery workers and elected officials, and tools for people to express their opposition to the potential deal.

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      Christine Wilson during FTC confirmation hearing

      Following Loud and Lousy Exit, FTC Better Off Without Christine Wilson

      The parting shots of the outgoing commissioner—who personifies DC's pro-corporate revolving door—only draw attention to her actual conflicts of interest.

      KJ Boyle
      Andrea Beaty
      Mar 12, 2023

      Commissioner Christine Wilson's "noisy exit" from the Federal Trade Commission officially has an end date. On March 2, she submitted her official resignation to President Biden announcing she will step down on the last day of the month, and she couldn't help but take some final shots at her apparent nemesis, Chair Lina Khan. Evidently, Wilson still has a bad case of "Lina Khan Derangement Syndrome."

      Wilson doubled down on the grandstanding and baseless accusations she lodged in the Wall Street Journal last month, where she claimed Khan has abused government power (the details of which Wilson conveniently claims she cannot disclose), ignored ethics rules (an idea put forth by the very monopolies avoiding regulation), and flaunted the due process rights of Facebook (though both the Commission and a judge determined Khan need not recuse herself). These accusations are, of course, without merit. Wilson can't be outright in stating her real issue with Khan's leadership—the fact that the FTC is now aggressively cracking down on the entrenched monopolies that have flourished under both Wilson's and her predecessor's watch.

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      Eggs are seen at a grocery store in Washington, D.C.

      Warren and Porter Demand Answers From Big Egg Over 'Massive Spike' in Prices

      "American families working to put food on the table deserve to know whether the increased prices they are paying for eggs represent a legitimate response to reduced supply or out-of-control corporate greed."

      Jake Johnson
      Feb 17, 2023

      Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Katie Porter on Thursday demanded answers from the five largest egg producers in the United States over recent price surges that companies have blamed on an avian flu outbreak—a narrative that advocates view as an effort to distract attention from rampant profiteering in the industry.

      Warren (D-Mass.) and Porter (D-Calif.) invoked that criticism in letters to Rose Acre Farms, Cal-Maine Foods, Hillandale Farms, Versova Management, and Daybreak Foods, writing that they are concerned by the "massive spike" in prices and "the extent to which egg producers may be using fears about avian flu and supply shocks as a cover to pad their own profits at the expense of American families."

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