Food Marketing Costs: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Consumers Study of ..., 85-1 ..., October 8 and 9, 19571957 - 155 pages |
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... Merchandising , New York , N. Y. Additional data submitted to the subcommittee by- Adams , John Q .: Two letterheads : Coordinating Committee of the Food Industries .. Marketmen's Association of the Port of New York .. Anfuso , Hon ...
... Merchandising , New York , N. Y. Additional data submitted to the subcommittee by- Adams , John Q .: Two letterheads : Coordinating Committee of the Food Industries .. Marketmen's Association of the Port of New York .. Anfuso , Hon ...
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... merchandise displayed on the walk down there and the buyers look at it , and that is when the trading starts . That is when the sale is made . Mr. ANFUSO . In other words , you have no guaranty and no way of knowing what you are going ...
... merchandise displayed on the walk down there and the buyers look at it , and that is when the trading starts . That is when the sale is made . Mr. ANFUSO . In other words , you have no guaranty and no way of knowing what you are going ...
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... merchandise . He just cannot rub it out . Mr. ANFUSO . May I say that the city administration here has submitted a statement , as you well know , to the committee approv- ing of your marketing bill , and I think they are making every ...
... merchandise . He just cannot rub it out . Mr. ANFUSO . May I say that the city administration here has submitted a statement , as you well know , to the committee approv- ing of your marketing bill , and I think they are making every ...
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... merchandising . Mr. McINTIRE . They are sold mostly in truck form ? Mr. CLARK . Yes . Mr. McINTIRE . Do you do any processing ? Mr. CLARK . We do not do any processing . We sell relatively a small amount for processing , but principally ...
... merchandising . Mr. McINTIRE . They are sold mostly in truck form ? Mr. CLARK . Yes . Mr. McINTIRE . Do you do any processing ? Mr. CLARK . We do not do any processing . We sell relatively a small amount for processing , but principally ...
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... merchandise is pulled through muddy streets , through the rain and slop , like you saw last night . Mr. COOLEY . Trains and trucks cannot easily reach the market place ? Mr. FISHER . That is our problem . You see , I think if we had a ...
... merchandise is pulled through muddy streets , through the rain and slop , like you saw last night . Mr. COOLEY . Trains and trucks cannot easily reach the market place ? Mr. FISHER . That is our problem . You see , I think if we had a ...
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Page 121 - No person shall engage in this state in any trade practice which is defined in this Act as, or determined pursuant to this Act to be, an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance.
Page 121 - Section 5, Federal Trade Commission Act : "Unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices In commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.
Page 150 - I960, to be full compliance with the subpena. Did you receive that letter, Mr. Tobin? Mr. TOBIN. I did, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. That letter will be placed in the record. (The letter referred to is as follows:) JUNE 17, 1960. Mr. AUSTIN J. TOBIN, Executive Director, The Port of New York Authority, New York, NY DEAR MR. TOBIN: This is in reference to the subpena issued by Subcommittee No. 5 of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on June 13, 1960, and served upon you on...
Page 49 - Retail-cost estimates represent cost at retail food store prices of all domestic farm foods that were both sold by farmers and bought by civilian consumers in this country. Farm food products sold in the form of m-als are included but are valued at what the food would have cost in retail stores.
Page 121 - FTC issues statement on trading stamps," Press Release, October 3, 1957, wherein the Commission stated that it "did not consider trading stamp plans in themselves to be an unfair method of competition under the laws it administers.
Page 122 - ... with reference to the Sperry and Hutchinson Company (S & H) and Top Value Enterprises, Inc. (TV), two of the major trading stamp companies in the industry. In the petition before this Court, the petitioner pointed out that the Federal Trade Commission in its study of the stamp plan operations "would take action where necessary to prevent deception of customers, price discrimination, illegal exclusive dealing, boycott, conspiracy, or any other conduct in violation of the Federal Trade Commission...
Page 3 - When you begin to talk about the spread between what the farmer gets and what the consumer pays, in...
Page 120 - I said then — since we know it is essential for our type of economy and we like the freedoms which our economy gives to each of us — the freedom to enter or withdraw from any specific field or career, freedom to set our own prices, yes, even freedom to undersell somebody else and take business away from him. But— I continued — all too often when a competitor really acts like a competitor and does something which hurts us — cuts a price, sells harder, improves quality — it becomes "unfair...
Page 78 - That is the point I was going to make. In other words, you know this is a remarkable thing, you give less service, you get more money.
Page 122 - Commission intends to continue to study stamp-plan operations and will take action where necessary to prevent deception of customers, price discrimination, illegal exclusive dealing, boycott, conspiracy, or any other conduct in violation of the Federal Trade Commission or Clayton Acts.