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June 5, 2007
June 4, 2007
Scammer Says Goodbye to False Claims about Greeting Card Business Opportunity
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A businessman has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that he sold his greeting card display rack business opportunities by misrepresenting the potential earnings that consumers could make. The...
FTC Challenges Rite Aid's Proposed $3.5 Billion Acquisition of Brooks and Eckerd Pharmacies from Canadas Jean Coutu Group, Inc.
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Protecting competition and consumers, the Federal Trade Commission today announced it is challenging Rite Aid Corporation’s proposed $3.5 billion acquisition of the Brooks and Eckerd pharmacies from...
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Rite Aid Corporation and The Jean Coutu Group (PJC), Inc., In the Matter of (timeline item) - June 4, 2007
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Agreement Containing Consent Orders
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Decision and Order
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Order To Maintain Assets
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Complaint
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June 1, 2007
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Children's Exposure to Television Advertising in 1977 and 2004: Information for the Obesity Debate: A Bureau of Economics Staff Report
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This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the amount and type of television advertising seen by children in 2004 and compares these results to similar studies conducted for the Federal Trade...
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Pricing Behavior of Multi-Product Retailers
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While retail sales are an important economic phenomenon, previous research has not explored how the multiproduct nature of consumers’ purchasing decisions affects the pricing dynamics of multiproduct...
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Pricing Behavior of Multi-Product Retailers
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Improving Consumer Mortgage Disclosures: An Empirical Assessment of Current and Prototype Disclosure Forms: A Bureau of Economics Staff Report
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This study presents the results of 36 in-depth interviews with recent mortgage customers, and quantitative consumer testing with over 800 mortgage customers, that examined how consumers search for...
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Executive Summary of the Report
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Text of the Report
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Sample Prototype Disclosure Form
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Sample Current Disclosure Forms
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Commission Approves Filing of Joint FTC/DOJ Comments with Michigan Governor on Real Estate Services Provision; FTC Receives Two Petitions for Proposed Divestitures from SCI and Alderwoods Group
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Commission approval of joint FTC/DOJ comments:The Commission has approved the filing of joint FTC/DOJ comments with Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm regarding Michigan House Bill (HB) 4416, which...
International Competition Network Presents Report on Unilateral Conduct and Announces Merger Convergence Project at its Sixth Annual Conference
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The Federal Trade Commission announced today that the sixth Annual International Competition Network (ICN) conference in Moscow, Russia, took significant steps toward strengthening antitrust...
Graduate as a Well-Educated Consumer, Too
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It is graduation time, with schools celebrating their students accomplishments and their readiness to move on to the next challenge. The Federal Trade Commission offers its own commencement advice for...
Children Not Seeing More Food Ads on Television
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Today’s children see more promotional ads for other programming, but fewer paid ads and fewer minutes of advertising on television, according to a report released today by the staff of the Federal...
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Service Corporation International, In the Matter of (timeline item) - June 1, 2007
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