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Grocers Settle Price-Fixing Suit Against Chicken of the Sea


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Price-fixing allegations against shelf-stable tuna provider Chicken of the Sea and its chief competitors, Bumble Bee and StarKist, first surfaced in 2015.
The Kroger Co., Hy-Vee, Albertsons and H-E-B are among the food retailers that have settled a class action filed against Chicken of the Sea regarding price-fixing allegations in the shelf-stable tuna category that first surfaced in 2015, according to a published report.
Seafood Source reported that San Diego-based Chicken of the Sea International, a division of Thai Union, was a whistleblower in the long-running scandal, which led to a U.S. Department of Justice investigation that ensnared chief competitors StarKist and Bumble Bee Foods, both of which pleaded guilty to charges of price-fixing and were hit with multimillion-dollar fines. Chicken of the Sea received immunity for helping the DOJ with the case, but it remains open to civil litigation because of its own admitted involv ....

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