Time to Buy This Grocery Stock?

The following video is from Tuesday's Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill and analysts Jason Moser and Matt Koppenheffer dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

Kroger buys Harris Teeter for $2.5 billion, but is it a smart bet? With only 200 locations, Harris Teeter expands Kroger's store count by only 10%. In our lead story on InvestorBeat, Jason and Matt discuss the positives for Kroger as well as the danger of occupying the "middle space" of the industry.

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The relevant video segment can be found between 0:14 and 2:29.

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