<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060123/bs_nm/retail_albertsons_supervalu_dc"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060121/capt.nybz10201201716.albertsons_sale_nybz102.jpg?x =130&amp;y=97&amp;sig=X.endezv08sMiGqcZs0zPA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Customers shop at an Albertson's store Nov. 22, 2005, in a Salt Lake City file photo. Albertson's Inc., the nation's second largest traditional supermarket chain, confirms it received a buyout offer and it planned to begin negotiations. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An investor group led by Supervalu
Inc. agreed on Monday to buy struggling grocery chain
Albertson's Inc. for $9.8 billion in cash and stock,
ending an intense auction that only weeks before had fallen
apart.</p><br clear=all>

View the entire article: Investor group to buy Albertson's for $9.8 bln (Reuters)