By Tamara Chuang | The Colorado Sun
About two weeks before the Federal Trade Commission sued to block Kroger Company’s proposed $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons Companies Inc. in late February, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office filed an antitrust lawsuit of its own.
The state’s antitrust trial began Monday morning in Denver District Court, room 414, as attorney Arthur Biller with the AG’s Office laid out how the merger threatens to increase grocery prices, reduce competition and impact the number of grocery workers and supermarkets, especially in the more rural parts of the state.
He called Kroger “a monopolist of supermarkets” because it searches for “no-comp or low-comp stores,” or stores with little to no competition.