The FTC—Large Quality Store Advertising and the Small Retailer

Rowe Frederick M. , “The Federal Trade Commission's Administration of the Anti-Price Discrimination Law—A Paradox of Antitrust Policy,” Columbia Law Review, LXIV:3 (March 1964), 430.

Lofton Thomas M. , “Dual Distribution and Vertical Integration Under the Robinson-Patman Act,” Indiana Law Journal, XLI:1 (Fall 1965), 32.

Edwards Corwin D. , The Price Discrimination Law (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1959), p. 626.

“Small Business Before the Federal Trade Commission,” Yale Law Journal, LXXV:3 (Jan. 1966), 489.

Earl Kintner in his review of Price Discrimination Under the Robinson-Patman Law, by Rowe Frederick M. , Columbia Law Review, LXIV:6 (June 1964), 1167.

Rowe Frederick M. , Price Discrimination Under the Robinson-Patman Act (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, 1962), pp. 180–195.

Baum Daniel J. , The Robinson-Patman Act, Summary and Comment (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1964), p. 50.

“Guides for Advertising Allowances and Other Merchandise Payments and Services; Compliance with Sections 2(d) and 2(e) of the Clayton Act, as Amended by the Robinson-Patman Act” (distributed by the Federal Trade Commission). See Baum , op. cit., p. 132.

Ibid., p. 81.

Baum , op. cit., p. 67.

Best and Co. Inc., Trade Reg. Rep. (FTC Complaints, Orders, Stipulations), para. 17,363 at 22,580 (1965). Other store groups also appear to be under investigation. See Robert Kahn and Associates, Client Memo, I:7 (Oct. 1966), 3.

Edwards , op. cit., p. 625.

Thus, Homart bathroom fixtures sold to Sears were held by the Federal Trade Commission not of like grade and quality with Rundle's U-R fixtures, sold at higher prices, because the bathtubs and other equipment were of slightly different size and had slightly different features. See Rowe Frederick M. , “Current Developments in Robinson-Patman Law,” The Business Lawyer, XXI:2 (Jan. 1966), 501. See also Sears Roebuck and Co. and Universal-Rundle Corp., Trade Reg. Rep. (FTC Complaints, Orders, Stipulations), para. 16,644 at 21,526 (1963).

See Craig David R. Gabler Werner K. , “The Competitive Struggle for Market Control,” Readings in Marketing, ed. Westing J. H. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1953).

Edwards , op. cit., p. 631.

FTC v. Morton Salt Co., 334 U.S. 37 (1948).

Epstein Edwin M. , “Federal Regulation as it Affects the Purchaser,” Part One, Pacific Purchaser, XLVII:5 (May 1965), 55.

Rowe , “The Federal Trade Commission's Administration …,” op. cit., p. 419. Also see Columbia Law Review, LXV (April 1965), 722.

Preston Lee E. Schramm Arthur E. Jr. , “Dual Distribution and Its Impact on Marketing Organization,” California Management Review, VIII:2 (Winter 1965), 68.

See Baum , op. cit., p. 90.

Ibid., p. 103.

Ira Mielstein, panel participant in “The Robinson-Patman Act 1936–1966,” 30 A.B.A. Antitrust Section (April 1966), p. 46.

VanCise Jerrold G. , The Federal Antitrust Laws (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1965), p. 39.