price maintenance

You should hear my dad talking about retail price maintenance and bar codes.

Britain is the last nation in the English-speaking world with retail price maintenance on books.

However, resale price maintenance goes further than this and is illegal in many regions.

Yet, he said, resale price maintenance could benefit consumers.

She also joined the rebellion over the abolition of resale price maintenance in 1964.

The ending of retail price maintenance was a great blow to small independent bookshops.

But resale price maintenance involves only a single manufacturer.

This exemption does not apply to resale price maintenance or misuse of market power.

Resale price maintenance, where resellers are not allowed to set prices independently.

But during the 1980's Federal officials adopted a benign attitude toward price maintenance arrangements.

Each agreement also contained a resale price maintenance clause.

He rebelled against the whip on the abolition of resale price maintenance in 1964.

Justice Department officials have maintained that "price maintenance" agreements improve service to customers and are therefore not harmful to competition.

But the provision of services explanation for minimum resale price maintenance does not survive careful review.

Resale price maintenance, for instance, can help consumers.

The complaint that resale price maintenance is primarily designed to raise prices doesn't make much sense.

They acknowledge that price maintenance is sometimes used by giant stores to prevent smaller ones from competing with discounts.

Resale price maintenance by manufacturers is another form of agreement in restraint of trade.

In a market dominated by a few large sellers, manufacturers could conspire to use retail price maintenance to charge high prices.

That would make prosecution difficult where price maintenance is likely to do consumers good, but easy where it could do bad.

He also saw greater competition between retailers, unlike the resale price maintenance regime which seemed to exist in Australia.

He opposed the government's move to abolish resale price maintenance in 1964, but abstained rather than vote against.

In Japan, Ⓨ is a symbol used for resale price maintenance.

There is retail price maintenance by the manufacturer, both maximum price and minimum price.

Partly this reflects the lack of enthusiasm among manufacturers toward any erosion of retail price maintenance.