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Arguing that setting minimum prices violated the Sherman Anti Trust Act, Kay’s Kloset won more than $1 million in damages. canada goose outlet us Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans upheld the judgment.
buy canada goose jacket cheap Leegin appealed to the High Court. It wants the Supremes to overturn what’s known as the “Dr. Miles precedent” a good name for a novel or a rock band, if you’re so inclined which is a 1911 case that established that “resale price maintenance,” letting manufacturers set minimum prices, was illegal under the Sherman Act. buy canada goose jacket cheap
canada goose uk black friday Leegin contends that minimum prices aren’t necessarily anticompetitive and, if allowed to set them, manufacturers would still be able to compete in non price areas such as customer service. canada goose uk black friday
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The that they have to compete in a global marketplace and that an absolute ban on resale price maintenance stifles service and promotional programs that actually benefit consumers.
What do you think would happen if manufacturers were able to set minimum prices? Is it death to shopping as we know it? Or could it canada goose outlet england lead to friendlier clerks? And why don’t court cases always have cool names such as “Dr. Miles?”
I am with the manufacturers, for a bunch of reasons. First, the rush to the bottom price wise has generated a negative societal consequences, most notably the end of middle class manufacturing jobs, but also the end of quality and durability as values that canada goose factory outlet uk consumers look for. And this disposable society is something we can’t sustain any more, given the https://www.rheingoenheim-info.de effect our consumption is having on the planet. Retailers who want to stand for quality should be uk canada goose jackets free to make that choice; elsewise there will be no options available for people who want to buy long lasting products made by well compensated workers. If you want long lasting products made by well compensated workers, they’re absolutely available. But these products are very expensive, part of the difficulty of compensating the workers “well.”
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If retailers want to charge more for their goods and prevent price wars, they are free to do so by increasing quality. A resort to price minimums signifies that either they can’t or won’t increase quality and an inability to compete. They are just another subsidy.
From the manufacturer perspective. Imagine you have your heart set on a new microwave. Best Buy does the work, bob gets the sale. Pretty soon, with sales lagging, best buy stops advertising for GE microwaves. No one buys them (from Best Buy or bob). GE suffers. You don’t get a cool GE microwave. You suffer.
Now, imagine GE can impose a minimum price. If sets one too high, folks will probably buy alternative microwaves. But now if Best Buy and bob both have to sell at the same price (which must be competitive or GE won’t sell any), now bob is forced to actually do something not just free ride off of Best Buy. Maybe bob advertises, or offers free shipping and a bonus microwave dish. Maybe best buy sees that and adds free installation. GE sells more microwaves. You get a GE microwave. If the min price is too high you buy another kind.
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Let the marketplace work it’s magic it’s called capitalism. And jesabol, I think you’re talking at cross purposes. If someone is selling a Prada purse marked down to $150 I can afford it, why shouldn’t I buy it if I want it? A thousand dollar Prada purse is out of my means, but if someone else is willing to take a bath on the markup, why shouldn’t I be able to take advantage of it? It seems to me that Prada ought to sell their purses to the retailer for more than $150 if they want to keep the brand image up.