#robinsonpatmanact — Public Fediverse posts
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Via Stacy Mitchell, a piece on the proliferation of food deserts, their history and what it would take to eliminate them forever:
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Similarly, Dubal proposes that algorithmic wage discrimination violates another #antitrust law: the #RobinsonPatmanAct, which "bans sellers from charging competing buyers different prices for the same commodity. Robinson-Patman enforcement was effectively halted under Reagan, kicking off a host of pathologies, like the rise of #Walmart:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizes
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As mentioned, the "predatory buying" of dollar stores is illegal - it was outlawed in 1936 under the #RobinsonPatmanAct, which required wholesalers to offer goods to all merchants on the same terms. 40 years ago, we stopped enforcing those laws, leading the rise and rise of big box stores and the destruction of the American Main Street.
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