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Everyone loses out with resale price maintenance

Posted by: Simon Nichols, Posted on: 1 July 2022 - Categories: Consumer protection
Everyone loses out with resale price maintenance

What is retail price maintenance? Resale Price Maintenance (RPM), or vertical price fixing, is where a supplier requires a retailer not to sell below a certain price. The goal is to keep prices artificially high, so consumers are then robbed …

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