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Ruben Gallego: “We need to stop the merger of the grocery stores in Arizona…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Published | Video Starts at 41:22

So it actually keeps moving up. Number two, you fight inflation by actually looking at how you bring down costs. Number one, we have a big opportunity right now. We need to stop the merger of the grocery stores in Arizona by allowing Kroger Alison's to merge. They're going to have 70% of all grocery store controlling customers. That'll raise prices. And we already saw a lot of the grocery stores already gouging our consumers. (41:22–41:33)

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Asserts that the Kroger-Alison's merger would control 70% of grocery customers in Arizona.

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