FTC Probes Pepsi and Coke’s Pricing Tactics

Dear Client: In a development that could have far-reaching implications for the beer industry and national chains, the FTC has opened a probe against PepsiCo and the Coca-Cola Company alleging pricing tactics that could run up against a rarely-used federal law.   The law in question is called the Robinson-Patman Act, sources told Politico, and it prohibits producers from offering lower prices to large retailers at the expense of their smaller retail competitors.  Old timers will recall the law was regularly