# Professor Lawrence White weighs in on antitrust considerations related to the Walgreens-Rite Aid merger

1 Faculty News October 29, 2015 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg_0.jpg?itok=qy2YlnxP)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-29/walgreens-store-sales-seen-as-hurdle-for-rite-aid-deal-approval) -- "[Lawrence White](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), an economics professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, argues that sales to local buyers wouldn’t go far enough. The FTC will want a buyer that can replace the branded competition that Rite Aid is providing, possibly a large regional pharmacy with aspirations of going national, he said. 'It would have to be a viable party who could really take those multiple hundreds of stores and turn them into something that looks like Rite Aid,' said White. 'You’re losing the No. 3 player in an already pretty concentrated industry.'"

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