walmart vs amazon

Walmart is running scared.

 

could this spell the end of walmart?

 

Hardly

 

If true, this would be a clear violation of the Clayton Act.

From Wiki:

The Clayton Act made both substantive and procedural modifications to federal antitrust law. Substantively, the act seeks to capture anticompetitive practices in their incipiency by prohibiting particular types of conduct, not deemed in the best interest of a competitive market. There are 4 sections of the bill that proposed substantive changes in the antitrust laws by way of supplementing the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. In those sections, the Act thoroughly discusses the following four principles of economic trade and business:

• price discrimination between different purchasers if such a discrimination substantially lessens competition or tends to create a monopoly in any line of commerce (Act Section 2, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 13);
• sales on the condition that (A) the buyer or lessee not deal with the competitors of the seller or lessor ("exclusive dealings") or (B) the buyer also purchase another different product ("tying") but only when these acts substantially lessen competition (Act Section 3, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 14);
• mergers and acquisitions where the effect may substantially lessen competition (Act Section 7, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 18) or where the voting securities and assets threshold is met (Act Section 7a, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 18a);
• any person from being a director of two or more competing corporations, if those corporations would violate the anti-trust criteria by merging (Act Section 8; codified 1200 at 15 U.S.C. § 19).

 

Better go back to law school there driver. The Clayton act prohibits sales on the condition that the buyer not deal with competitors of the seller. When Walmart hires a carrier to move their goods, they are the buyer, not the seller. Clayton Act does not apply.

 

Considering the byline on that article, do you think it's a serious article?

 

If walmart starts shutting off vendors because they haul serving other freight, then walmart will have to get off it's ### and start fetching the freight themselves. God knows they got the trucks. But wont use em other than piddling a store here and there 7 miles from distribution...

 

Walmart already "fetches" most of the freight themselves. Outside carriers are used when it is really busy to supplement, and they do handle most of the refer loads. Other than that, it is the Private Fleet. As a matter of fact, they have been working hard to use as little outside carriers as possible, as it costs the a lot more money than their own fleet. However, feel free to continue with your half truths.

 

I don't know about the half truths.

People like you who are FAMILIAR with how WALMART does business in trucking have a powerful position to correct the half truths with actual fact. That way I can learn from people like you and do better. Ergo no more half truths.

The big issue is when no one familiar with anything speaks up then there is no factual base for anything at all. When that happens, everything becomes suspect.

Ive always said I learn something every day. Sometimes it requires that correction which I always welcome good or bad. Some people however do not have the strength of character to understand that actual fact when taught properly will take care of the problem of half truths.