RETAIL-IATION By TIM ARANGO - New York Post Online Edition: Business
Apparently, Wal-Mart did not get the news that telling retailers not to carry a competitor's products is an anticompetitive form of collusion that is a form of
Consumers, i.e. the Public, gets hurt as a consequence and that is certainly what happened back in the 1990s.
RETAIL-IATION By TIM ARANGO - New York Post Online Edition: Business:
Wal-Mart has been throwing its weight around a lot more than it has been pulling its weight, lately.
Hopefully, they can just suck it up and allow competition and free enterprise to run its course.
At least Apple can say that its employees are not on food stamps and welfare.
trustbetween two companies.
Consumers, i.e. the Public, gets hurt as a consequence and that is certainly what happened back in the 1990s.
RETAIL-IATION By TIM ARANGO - New York Post Online Edition: Business:
...Wal-Mart's David Porter - the executive responsible for stocking the retailer's shelves with DVDs and CDs and whose influence is so immense in Tinseltown that he's been named to Premiere magazine's annual power list - made the rounds of Hollywood studios.
His message, according to a studio exec involved in the discussions: that there would be "serious ramifications" if the studios hopped in bed with Apple. "They threatened to hurt us in terms of buying less products," said this person.
The situation between Bentonville and Hollywood has gotten so heated and so high-level that Jobs recently phoned Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott to ask him to moderate his stance, according to a source.
Wal-Mart has been throwing its weight around a lot more than it has been pulling its weight, lately.
Hopefully, they can just suck it up and allow competition and free enterprise to run its course.
At least Apple can say that its employees are not on food stamps and welfare.
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