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Chicago price fix case dismissed

Dairy Foods, March, 2003

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> A district court judge in Illinois recently threw out a class-action lawsuit that accused the Chicago area's two largest grocery chains, Jewel-Osco and Dominick's Finer Foods, of conspiring to fix the price of milk. Meanwhile, Dominick's parent company Safeway Inc., has recently announced a $ 1.1 billion loss in the fourth quarter, largely because of problems with its purchase of Dominick's and of Randalls in Texas.

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