Scott Moses Writes: The Evolving “Grocery Market” Definition: Key Insights From The FTC’s Merger Guidelines Listening Forum
June 28, 2022
Scott Moses, Head of Grocery, Pharmacy & Restaurants, provides insight in his quarterly column in Supermarket News on the definition of “grocery markets” and the importance of grocery mergers, as discussed in the FTC’s recent Merger Guidelines Listening Forum. Scott writes that the FTC’s challenges of regional grocery mergers designed to help build the scale required to compete with “grocery giants” like Amazon and Walmart actually benefit the “giants” instead of leveling the playing field to protect our local grocers.