you're trying to merge with albertsons, trying to bring them in. updated investors on the milestone with the antitrust authorities, rodney. what is that? and what would you say is your confidence level at this point in this deal getting done? >> yeah, if you look at our merger with albertsons, and i've mentioned it before, just so impressed with the talent and i can't wait until it actually happens. we know starting day one the customer will be able to save money and there will be better job security and we'll be able to continue to invest in wages and no one will lose their job. we finalized everything with the ftc and have constructive dia dialogue, so feel really good about where we are and we would continue to expect to close in early 2024. >> all right, well, that sounds confident enough. rodney, thank you very much for the update. appreciate it. rodney mcmullen from cincinnati, the leader of kroger there. the important comments on the consumer, the bifurcation still. there's not really been a change with the higher end consumer as far as spen

contaminated peaches, nectarines and plums the stores include walmart, sam's club sprouts, publix and some albertsons and all stores. the fruit is from h m c farms and signature farms. there has been one death and then 11 illnesses from the contaminated fruit. a new study says a growing number of kids and preteens are using the supplement melatonin go to sleep melatonin is naturally produced by the brain to signal the body is ready for sleep. researchers at the university of colorado say that nearly one in 5 kids and preteens take the supplement regularly. the study found 6% of that kids ages one to 4 and 18% over kids ages 5 to 9 are given melatonin by their folks. the fda says that parents should find other ways to help their child sleep at night because not all melatonin is safe for children. health care executives promoting the use of artificial intelligence in their industry were on capitol hill today. >> the house hegring comes as congress works to try to develop regulations around the technology to better protect patients and their doctors, hospitals, doctors, offices and pharmacies across the

as a veteran of albertsons supermarkets, bagging, i know it so well.rdy products and then you put the liner items on top. they don't do that anymore. no one double bags anymore unless they are dating joy behar, because she eats a lot of food. i like control over the bagging, i like accomplishing something small. it makes me feel good. i hate waiting in line behind people looking for their club card. >> remember when you would go with your mom and the person in front of you would write the check? they wouldn't do it right away. let me look at my big bag and find my checkbook and then i am going to write it out. >> remember when you would get cash back? >> i need to do that for my neighbor marge. this is your season to smile -- to raise a toast and gather together, to wrap up the fun and round up the gang. to help get you ready, your aspen dental team is celebrating 25 years of affordable care with an epic anniversary savings event. right now, new patients without insurance get a free full exam and x-rays. plus, everyone can get 20% off their treatment p

want to get dinner, if you don't want to be waiting an hour and a half or two hours or going to albertsons, you're meeting to make reservations in order to be able to get a meal. when you -- when you want to do a fishing trip, if you want the climb the grand, if you want to go for a trip or go for wildlife four, advance planning is -- is needed. i'm not saying we should do that in every situation, i'm just saying that the way that the private market works in tourism is people are increasingly welcoming being able to create a degree of certainty in their itinerary about where they go and when they go and they are -- and it is helping the private market, it's helping the industry in order to be able to manage the demand and match it for their capacity. sitting here, jackson, jackson hall mountain resort they have a very sophisticated visitor use management program that is -- it's tied in with the transportation system where they actively manage their parking both parking on site here and parking in the community that's connected with the regional transit system that manages the number of peo

want to get dinner, if we don't to be waiting for an hour and a half or two hours were going to albertsons needing to make reservations in order to get a meal. when you want to do a fishing trip if you want to climb the grand, if you want to go for a raft trip if you want to go for forwildlife tour, advance planng is needed. i'm not saying we should do that in every situation. i am just saying the way the private market works and tourism as people are increasingly welcoming being able to create a certainty and theirir itinerary about where they go and when they go. helping the private market. helping the industry in order to be able to manage this type of the transportation system. actively manage their parking that manages to get to the base area. they manage the people on the slopes. they have figured out in order to maintain the quality of experience or clients are looking for there is a finite number of people who can be on the slopes. on the day passes to line up that capacity all of that works in concert and i think can i ask this question, how many people think visitation to our nat

evercourse talking about consumer strength, food prices, maybe some progress in albertson's could result in 25% to 35% earnings appreciation, but why has this been such a tough stock? what would you do with it? >> this is a traditionally very low margin business. when you see input prices increase like we have over the last several years, profits are squeezed and it's hard to pay out a high multiple for something like this. this is not normally a stock that we would be attracted to. but i am attracted to this stock, and make no mistake, it's also because i have three growing teenage boys in the house and we're at kroger almost every day. so it's nice to own what you spend money on. but nonetheless, whisper number here, 94 cents. it's still not cheap, trading in low single digit growth. but our view here is, as we see inflationary pressures and input prices come down, i don't think that will translate to lower grocery prices, which means we should see margin expansion. we could ultimately see profits increase. that would be a new cycle for a company like this. also, make no mistake, i thi

people are very concerned about how deflation could also hurt them but if they're able to get the albertson'sn upside into the back half of next year and '25 and sherwin williams is one we use for interest rate sensitive where we think there's nice margin expansion if volume ever comes back, that could be a nice one there. o'reilly automotive, i don't know if it's a sleeper, but we think it's a core winner. >> are we in retail deflation? >> we're in a massive period of retail disinflation and we are certainly seeing in categories outright deflation a lot of general merchandise, electronic, et cetera, and we're with learning which categories are going to pivot from disinflation to deflation. that's why watching this holiday and these trends i think are so important. that's why i think what walmart had to say today is not just hurting their stock, it's sort of taking down retail in general. >> so final thought. you say 2% gains over the holiday season in sales. who is the main beneficiary there? is it walmart? >> we would say any retailer that has inventory right. >> right. >> has been growing

after albertson and johnson's death, he could only fid one generalth. joe johnston beauregd who clearly distrusted were no better than bragg. s he referred to as basically incompetent or william party who we know shied away from assignments.. the fact that none of his he successors whether they were e joe . again, i respect it. . again, i respect the fact that none of bragg's rm successors improved upon his record underscores the point that it was lack of talent across the board. in regard to picket commanders in the western. i will say that every critical moment and some of the generals were talking about presenters th in the depot after grant won in battle, braxton bragg failed to achieve victory. help to convince the lake intermedia administration. that might be the most d egregious thing of all. th more stubborn resistance might have given the economic lifeline, protected the most valuable advantage, or done more to cast out the military abilities of the men who would s eventually turn the tide of the war in favor the unit. but jefferson davis' high

one of my favorite sketches here the fight achickamauga and a great ambrose bierce aphorism after albertson johnston's death, he cod hardly find one general in the full acceptation of the word. who could command the army in the western theater, e johnston or beauregard, who he clearly distrusted, were no better thabragg. there was polk whporter alexander referred to has basically incompetent or william hardy o we know shied away from assignments larger than corps command. i respected the fact that non of bragg's successors, whether they were joe johnston or john bell hood, had improved upon his record, underscores the point that it was lack of talent across the board that influenced davis decision making in regard to picking commanders in the army's western theater. but by way of conclusion, i'll say that at every critical moment of his tenure in command of the army of tennessee and there are some of the generals we're talking about and confederate prisoners at the chattanooga ilad depot. depot, aft gnt won the battle, braxton bragg failed to achieve victory. and under his leadsh, the confe

contaminated peaches, nectarines and plums the stores include walmart, sam's club sprouts public albertsons and aldi and aldi. the fruit is from hmc farms and signature farms. there's been one death and 11 illnesses from the contaminated fruit. and it turns out bench travel. that's the thing that is here to stay. according to a new study conducted by visa travel has surged post-covid with no signs of retreating despite rising costs, the survey found about 3 out of 4 americans noticed an increase in prices for flights and hotels, but only about 6% of travelers plan to cancel or delay their trips. study participants are also prioritizing days away for leisure with many taking an average of 3 international trips for around 7 days. and we've got more stories for you on this hour of kron. 4 news coming up, new york congressman george santos still refusing to resign as he faces a 3rd resolution to expel him from congress. >> how lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are reacting to the congressman's refusal to go quietly. plus health care executives on capitol hill this afternoon to promote the be

on limited hours - you have albertson's, ralph's safeway, sprouts and acme.en? the butterball hotline those folks work hard, and they will help you. >> if you are hosting tomorrow, any tips for those people? any brave souls? >> anytime you get a lot of people together, expect spills and messes get the stain treatments ready right now. a stain stick for the clothes, apparently for red wine, real simple says you can get it out with white wine or salt or shaifg cream coffee stains, white vinegar works really well. have plenty of absorbable towels on hand. the key is blotting, blotting, blotting let the stain remover do its work the other has to do with boundaries and talking about what is safe dr. jen hartstein says this is the year, start up front, you know what, we're not going to talk about uncle bob and the politics, why our aunt needs to quit smoking keep it on food, the family, what we are grateful for >> thank you >> you hit all the pieces there. i love it. thank you. let's get our forecast. >> things could go downhill really quickly if you don't listen t

think about the kroger deal with albertson's. i think they're never going to let that go on.didn't seem to matter. there would be tremendous mergers among people who sell cars. there would be big mergers in retail. but no one wants to do these things because they know they would just be rejected, then you would have to go to court, and by the time it's over, you lose a lot of talent. i commend microsoft for going through the deal, but they're the richest company -- second richest company. >> exxon, pioneer, chevron? >> i think those might be bought. people don't think so, but i think they're studying. remember, if you go back and read our stuff, it's very dogmatic. just says, mergers are bad so mergers should be blocked. that's the ethos, and i think people just haven't read her. it's painful as a bull to read her, because what she's saying is, shareholders have made too much money. it's time for the workers. that's biden. i mean, biden, on the picket line, was a seminal moment because i could argue that he destroyed the profitability of the companies that really matter in te