[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 119 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)] [Notices] [Page 31117] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 96-15483] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION [Dkt. C-3238] American Stores Company, et al.; Prohibited Trade Practices and Affirmative Corrective Actions
Agency
Federal Trade Commission
Action
Modifying order
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Summary
This order reopens a 1988 consent order that required American Stores to divest certain retail grocery stores in parts of California and Nevada and to obtain Commission approval before acquiring certain grocery stores. This order modifies the consent order by deleting the prior-approval requirements in Paragraph VIII of the consent order pursuant to the Commission's Prior Approval Policy--under which the Commission presumes that the public interest requires reopening and setting aside the prior-approval provisions in outstanding merger orders, making them consistent with the policy--and by replacing that provision with a prior notification provision.
Dates
Consent order issued August 31, 1988. Modifying order issued December 1, 1995.\1\
\1\ Copies of the Modifying Order are available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, H-130, 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
For Further Information Contact
Roberta Baruch, FTC/S-2115, Washington, D.C. 20580. (202) 326-2861.
Supplementary Information
In the Matter of American Stores Company, et al. The prohibited trade practices and/or corrective actions are changed, in part, as indicated in the summary.
(Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 Stat. 719, as amended; sec. 7, 38 Stat. 731, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 45, 18) Donald S. Clark, Secretary. [FR Doc. 96-15483 Filed 6-18-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750-01-M