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Distributor Employees Caught Up in Retailer Lawsuit

Dear Client:Here's a lesson in reining in over-zealous salespeople and setting boundaries: A beer distributor's sales employees have been implicated in a lawsuit between two New York supermarket chains. The Price Chopper chain has filed a $20 million lawsuit against Giant Market for allegedly routinely stealing ad pricing information before it was published, allegedly through a beer distributor's sales department.Here's what the lawsuit says happened: A former salesman for blue silver distributor A.L. George LLC was charged by police earlier

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