Home Chef Fried Chicken is now double-breaded and hand-dipped with a signature flavor boasting 18 different spices and a tremendous crunch, according to Kroger.
Kroger sees the combination with Albertsons — the largest-ever US conventional supermarket merger deal — as a way to build the scale to better compete with mass chains as well as discount grocers and online retailers.
The megaretailers will pause their merger until five days after the Denver District Court rules on the merits of an antitrust case centered around the acquisition.