The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit seeking to block the $24.6 billion merger presumes “that consumers are walled off from any other sources for groceries and have no alternative but to buy all their needs from either Kroger or Albertsons alone,” according to an amicus brief filed Friday by Alabama, Georgia, Iowa and Ohio.
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“It … means that many thousands of cases were wrongly