{
  "id": 15765397,
  "title": "Kroger doomed Albertsons merger with weak store divestiture plan, former Albertsons CEO testifies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/kroger-doomed-albertsons-merger-with-weak-store-divestiture-plan",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-20T16:26:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Grocery Dive",
    "slug": "grocery-dive",
    "url": "https://www.grocerydive.com/news/albertsons-kroger-trial-merger-divestitures-supermarkets-grocery/833483/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The grocers lost credibility with regulators because Kroger was not willing to part with enough stores, Vivek Sankaran said as a trial over which grocer is to blame for the deal’s failure began.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}