The charges, laid Thursday, come ... after Canada’s Competition Bureau ... found evidence suggesting that a price-fixing cartel collaborated, agreed or arranged to set the prices of chocolate products.I agree, price fixing is, or should be, a crime. Yet, ironically, the milk used by those chocolate companies is produced by dairy marketing cartels that engage in egregious, anti-competitive, consumer harming, price fixing with full government approval.
... Criminal charges have been laid against candy makers Nestlé Canada Inc. and Mars Canada Inc., and ITWAL Limited...
... “We are fully committed to pursuing those who engage in egregious, anti-competitive behaviour that harms Canadian consumers,” said John Pecman, interim commissioner of competition, in a statement.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Price fixing hypocrisy - criminal charges laid against chocolate companies
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In Kelowna, when I go out to buy gas for my car tomorrow morning, every station in town has the same price per litre - identical to the last decimal place. Just a coincidence?
Could be collusion but it's been investigated many times without anyone being able to prove it, so who knows?
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