On 07/09/09 08:02, Invisible wrote:
>>>> Do you also think Coca-Cola is wrong for banning pubs and restaurants
>>>> from selling Pepsi?
>>>
>>> Yes. (It's news to me that they can legally do this...)
>>
>> Both Pepsi and Coca Cola do this in the US. They offer a nice rate if
>> the business signs an exclusive contract. It really, really sucks.
>
> They offer a nice rate if the business signs an exclusive contract? Or
> they won't sell to the business at all if they don't sign an exclusive
> contract?

	Well, they can always do the latter in a roundabout way: By charging 50 
times more if they don't sign an exclusive contract. I really don't know 
if they do that, though.

	This is common in university campuses here:

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2009/03/audit-questions-rod-blagojevichs-no-coke-pepsi-contract.html

http://www.vpaf.uni.edu/obo/pepsifaqs.shtml

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