A ruling in the Kroger-Albertsons merger case will hinge on how Judge for Oregon Adrienne Nelson interprets a 1980s-era definition of the grocery industry.

A merger of Kroger and Albertsons would cost Colorado consumers as much as $500 million a year because of a lack of competition, a lawyer from the Colorado Attorney General’s office argued Monday at the start of the state’s trial seeking to block the ...

He said a court order could reach outside the “state’s borders.” Similarly, Ferguson told The Enquirer last week that Kroger and Albertsons had structured their deal as an “all-or-nothing” transaction and that a court order in Washington could ...