Big Box Material from a Robinson-Patman Act Standpoint

First Published: 1997; Last Update: 2/13/04 19:40

This page is to collect references to articles and other information of interest to persons seeking to analyze "Big Box" discount stores or "Superstores" or "Category Killer" superstores from a Robinson-Patman Act and/or Sherman Antitrust Act standpoint.

• How to Stop Wal-Mart from Expanding into and Destroying Your Community; and Fighting Globalism a new website, start in July, 2001, designed to help communities and small businesses deal with the forces of superstores and globalism which are destroying middle America while further enriching the super-rich

• The Shils Report, a 250-Page Report and Survey Proving that Big Box / Superstores Are Injuring Towns and Small Businesses in America through Price Discrimination and Other Predatory Practices

• An important collection of anti-superstore reports available at nominal copying/postage cost, including a report by leading anti-sprawl expert Prof. Ken Stone

• Also, you should check out the rest of this highly relevant, anti-sprawl website by community-preservation activist Al Norman Sprawl-Busters Website by Al Norman - promising "We help communities stop the big box bulldozers!"

• If you can find a copy of this article, and I cannot, you should read it: a 5-Page Revision of July-August 1994 Article by Law Professor Alan C. Weinstein Entitled How to Cope With -- or Without -- "Big Box" Retailers. This must-read article discusses the interesting and questionable relationship between the largest discount retailers (e.g., Wal-Mart) and their subsidiary price clubs: e.g., Sam's Club, and how the small retailers in a 20-mile radius or so, while being squeezed out of business by the discount retailers, still have no choice but to be customers of these competition-killing competitors. As of 7/01, the last-known address for Prof. Weinstein is: Prof. Alan C. Weinstein, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 1801 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115

• Shipping Manifest Destiny - How Barnes & Noble Wants to Dominate an Industry, and Why You Should Care, by Robert Wynne

• [117K] Full Text 6/30/97 Court Decision - FTC Obtains Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting Staples Acquisition of Office Depot, Inc. - FTC Act and Clayton Act - refers to "Category Killer" Superstores

• Price Discrimination Newsletter

• If you are interested in communicating with Carl E. Person, you may send an email to carlpers@ix.netcom.com.

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