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Business Law: Principles for Today's Commercial Environment 5th Edition

Business Law: Principles for Today's Commercial Environment (5th Edition)

Book Edition5th Edition
Author(s)Jennings, Twomey
ISBN9781305575158
PublisherCengage Learning
SubjectBusiness
Section 5-2: Regulation of Horizontal Markets and Competitors
THINKING THINGS THROUGH
ETHICS & THE LAW
Section 5-3: Regulation of the Supply Chain and Vertical Trade Restraints
Bagging Customers for Having Sales
Fill It Up, but Only at My Price
If You Want Our Cartridges, You Have to Use Our Ink
Chapter 5, End of Chapter, Questions and Case Problems, Exercise 5
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Hines Cosmetic Co. sold beauty preparations nationally to beauty shops at a standard or fixed-price schedule. Some of the shops were also supplied with a free demonstrator and free advertising materials. The shops that were not supplied with them claimed that giving the free services and materials constituted unlawful price discrimination. Hines replied that there was no price discrimination because it charged everyone the same. What it was giving free was merely a promotional campaign that was not intended to discriminate against those who were not given anything free. Was Hines guilty of unlawful price discrimination? Explain.

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