SN Top 10: Fred Meyer, Kroger, Albertsons top the week’s headlines

In this week’s recap of the Top 10 most popular Supermarket News articles, Following strike, union now calls for shopper boycott of Fred Meyer stores in Portland, Oregon ranked as the week’s top story. After a six-day strike, some 4,500 grocery workers at Fred Meyer in Portland, Ore., are now calling for a shopper boycott to put continued pressure on contract negotiations. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 issued a press release on Thursday urging community support of the workers by not shopping at Fred Meyer stores until the two sides can agree on a new contract. 

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In other news, Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen and Albertsons CEO Vivek Sankaran took the stand in the U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore., to defend their $24.6 billion plan to merge the two grocery companies. 
McMullen said the merger would enable the combined companies to lower prices for consumers and that it would bring corporate jobs to Portland, according to a story in the Oregonian newspaper.
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