Questionable business practices according to antitrust agencies Complete the following table by indicating whether each of the scenarios describes the concept of tying, resale price maintenance, or predatory pricing. Scenario Chug-a-lug sells a wide variety of soft drinks to retail convenience stores. Chug-a-lug recently unveiled two new soft drinks: a popular orange soda and a much less popular ginger ale. Chug-a- lug requires convenience stores to buy 15 cases of the ginger ale for every 150 cases of the orange soda ordered. Heat-Em-Up is the only firm producing grills. It costs $420 to produce a grill, and Heat-Em-Up sells each grill for $800. After Well Done, a new firm with the same costs as Heat-Em-Up, enters the market for grills, Heat-Em-Up starts selling its grills for a price of $310. Rhythm is a firm that produces mp3 players. Suppose Rhythm sells its mp3 players to retail stores for $157 each and requires those retailers to charge customers at least $177 for each mp3 player. True or False: All economists believe that predatory pricing is a profitable business strategy. True O False Tying O Resale Price Maintenance O O Predatory Pricing O O
