Financials

Owners have hired an investment bank to explore the disposal of the American c-store network, which includes Kroger's 700-plus convenience stores, report says.

Shareholders waited over two months as the payment, announced with the Kroger mega-merger, became entangled in litigation.

Washington’s Supreme Court late Tuesday cleared the way for stockholder payments to begin. But the state’s attorney general warned the grocer’s planned $24.6 billion merger with Kroger is “far from a done deal.”