Price discrimination is a strategy that charges customers different prices for the same product based on what the seller ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) withdrew the agency’s lawsuit against Pepsi Cola for allegedly violating the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA). The withdrawal was supported by all three members of the ...

As American voters continue to rank affordability among their top concerns, a coalition of farm, consumer, grocery and antimonopoly groups said rising prices are not simply the result of inflation or ...

On January 10, 2023 Politico reported that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has launched antitrust investigations into Pepsi and Coca Cola. 1 According to the article, the “companies’ pricing ...

The rumors of the death of price discrimination enforcement may have been greatly exaggerated. The Robinson-Patman Act (“RPA”) (15 U.S.C. §13), enacted in 1936, prohibits price discrimination by ...

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A window display at an A&P store in Manhattan in the 1930s. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) Perspective by Marc Levinson In 1909, the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company offered a ...

This article discusses the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and recent enforcement actions that have revived "a depression-era prohibition on price discrimination that had since fallen out of favor with ...

Airlines have always used a multitude of proxies to determine customers’ willingness to pay: how far in advance people are booking, whether they’re going one-way or return, whether they’re staying a ...

This isn't just theoretical. I was approached by a consultant representing large U.S. employers who were exploring pharmacy tourism that would send patients abroad for their drugs. The controversy ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] The Federal Trade Commission sued PepsiCo on Jan. 17, alleging that it has engaged in illegal price discrimination by giving unfair ...