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Originally Posted by stonetools
I think it's kind of disingenuous to maintain that agency pricing hurts small and medium sized retailers .
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And again: US antitrust is first and foremost about protecting *consumers*.
Try this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...mer_protection
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Anti-competitive agreements among competitors, such as price fixing and customer and market allocation agreements, are typical types of restraints of trade proscribed by the antitrust laws. These type of conspiracies are considered pernicious to competition and are generally proscribed outright by the antitrust laws.
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