[HN Gopher] EU opens antitrust investigation into anticompetitiv...
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EU opens antitrust investigation into anticompetitive practices by
Corning
Author : impish9208
Score : 100 points
Date : 2024-11-06 13:00 UTC (10 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (ec.europa.eu)
| hiatus wrote:
| When I owned a cafe, a Coca Cola rep once came by and we set up a
| deal wherein I would get display refrigerators to put in my store
| and Coca Cola would resupply them with product.
|
| After a point, I found I could buy other drinks more cheaply from
| Restaurant Depot and filled the fridges with them, reducing my
| orders from Coke. They must have realized because the rep
| returned and asked me to only store drinks we bought through them
| in the fridges.
|
| How is this situation any different? Are suppliers unable to
| offer you a discount in exchange for exclusivity?
| rsynnott wrote:
| > How is this situation any different?
|
| They asked you not to put their competitors' stuff in 'their'
| fridge. They didn't say that you weren't allowed to buy
| competitors' stuff without their permission, or require you to
| inform them if competitors even _talked_ to you.
|
| Like, whether Coca Cola should be allowed do that is another
| question, but it _is_ a very different thing, and certainly a
| far less aggressive thing.
|
| For what it's worth, though, both the FTC and the EC have
| repeatedly investigated Coca Cola over various anti-trust
| issues, including around how they deal with distributors.
| michael_j_x wrote:
| not if they have monopoly status
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