The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.
It’s antitrust stuff, which is the government’s thinly veiled threat to tell businesses to do the right thing and play nice or get dismantled. Hasn’t really been enforced in ages and now nobody is afraid of just openly committing market collusion, pricing fixing schemes, and fraud. Specifically, this is collusion to do anticompetitive price discrimination, which is a crime (Robinson-Patman Act (1936)).
Does that break any laws? Are we going to get a $50 voucher for pepsi products sold at walmart or something?
It’s antitrust stuff, which is the government’s thinly veiled threat to tell businesses to do the right thing and play nice or get dismantled. Hasn’t really been enforced in ages and now nobody is afraid of just openly committing market collusion, pricing fixing schemes, and fraud. Specifically, this is collusion to do anticompetitive price discrimination, which is a crime (Robinson-Patman Act (1936)).