date:Oct 23, 2013
, Price Chopper and Thrifty Foods.
The assets that are being sold include 13 Safeway stores and 10 stores that operate under different banners owned by Empire.
The Competition Bureau, in a separate statement, said it concluded that the asset sales were required as the deal would otherwise have led to a substantial lessening of competition in the sale of a full-line of grocery products in a number of local markets in Western Canada.
The bureau, an independent law enforcement agency set up to e