Kroger and Albertsons have expanded the number of stores they're selling in an effort to convince regulators to drop a federal lawsuit seeking to block the supermarket giants' $25 billion merger.
The retail chains, which agreed in September to sell 413 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers, announced on Monday they will increase that number to 579.
Most of the stores added to the divestiture list are in Arizona, where 101 stores will change hands, up from 24 under the prior plan; Colorado, which increases to 91 divested stores from 52; and Illinois, where the number of stores to be sold has doubled to 35.
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