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The deal was approved. Get out of the way federal government.
1 posted on 10/25/2007 7:59:15 AM PDT by Cat loving Texan
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To: Cat loving Texan

Can’t have supermarkets merging but the Chinese buying 3Com is fine.


2 posted on 10/25/2007 8:12:50 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Cat loving Texan

Prohibiting this merger would appeal to the hippie-granola-liberals that are the bulk of each stores customers. Is the FTC heavily laden with Democrat administrators?


3 posted on 10/25/2007 8:19:07 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (The WOT will end when pork products are weaponized)
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To: Cat loving Texan

It’s ok to allow the cable companies to deny a-la-carte consumer choice for 20 years. That’s not a monopoly? The FTC sucks.


4 posted on 10/25/2007 8:20:10 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Cat loving Texan

Seems to fine for Big Oil, Telcoms, banks, automakers, and insurance companies for all sorts of mergers?


5 posted on 10/25/2007 8:23:55 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: Cat loving Texan

big government to the rescuse, hold your wwallets. I still don’t get what the problem is.


7 posted on 10/25/2007 8:38:11 AM PDT by GeronL
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They are already closing Wild Oats stores and combining inventories. That horse is out of the barn, fed and already bedded down.


11 posted on 10/25/2007 8:50:36 AM PDT by Right_Handed_Writer (Civilization is mortally wounded and something truly evil is being born to take its place(S. Coonts))
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