National Grocers Association

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) released today a highly-anticipated proposed update to merger enforcement guidelines. The proposed draft significantly re-writes merger enforcement standards to include new considerations for mergers that enhance buyer power.  Specifically, one of the thirteen proposed guidelines directly addresses buyer power (i.e. monopsony power) where a merger of competing buyers lessens competition for other sellers.  …

The National Grocers Association (NGA), the trade association representing the independent grocery industry, concluded its second Fly-In for Fair Competition, an event whose main policy focus is enforcing and strengthening the Robinson-Patman Act, a 1930’s era law that prohibits price discrimination against smaller retailers.  …