Slotting: Fair for Small Business and Consumers? : Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, September 14, 1999, Volume 4 |
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acquired acquisition advertising agreements antitrust laws average beverages brands brokers buying chain and independent CHAIN-STORE INVESTIGATION Chairman BOND Clayton Act commerce commodities companies competing competition competitors consolidation consumer corporation cost customers discounts and allowances distribution divestiture effect efficiencies enforcement exclusive Federal Trade Commission FINAL REPORT Fred Meyer grocery and meat grocery chains grocery industry grocery stores gross margin Guidelines increase independent distributors independent stores industry member Keller and Heckman Kesko/Tuko large chains loss leaders manufacturers market power marketplace merchandise monopoly payments percent power buyers practices price discrimination private label profit prohibit promotion purchase regulations REPORT OF CHAIN-STORE Robinson-Patman Act selling prices Senator KERRY shelf space Sherman Act slotting allowances slotting fees small business smaller sold special discounts statute Stop & Shop supercenters supermarket supermarket mergers suppliers supra note tion unfair violation Wal-Mart Washington wholesalers
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Page 150 - That it shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality...
Page 350 - ... unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality, where either or any of the purchases involved in such discrimination are in commerce, where such commodities are sold for use, consumption, or resale within the United States or any Territory thereof or the District of Columbia or any...
Page 354 - In commerce where the effect of such acquisition, or the use of such stock by the voting or granting of proxies...
Page 323 - Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent discrimination in price between purchasers of commodities on account of differences in the grade, quality, or quantity of the commodity sold, or that makes only due allowance for difference in the cost of selling or transportation, or discrimination in price in the same or different communities made in good faith to meet competition...
Page 354 - ... no corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, that whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.
Page 350 - And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall prevent persons engaged in selling goods, wares, or merchandise in commerce from selecting their own customers in bona fide transactions and not in restraint of trade.
Page 383 - That a trust is a combination of capital, skill, or acts by two or more persons...
Page 363 - ... or to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title thereto...
Page 354 - That no corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital and no corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where in any line of commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.
Page 384 - ... discriminate between different sections, communities, or cities of this state by selling such commodity at a lower rate in one section, community or city...