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by specialist 2053 days ago
I reject Bork's novel premise that sole criteria is consumer welfare. Proper antitrust assessment is based on competition.

Rephrasing your point:

Both grocers and aggregators compete with their own partners.

At the very least, in house brands shouldn't have unfair advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox

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Can you elaborate? All of the examples I can think of where favoring an in house brand is "bad" ultimately end with the consumer being harmed by either paying a higher price or receiving a lower quality product. What are the other "bad" scenarios which don't reduce to either of these?
The Sherman Act doesn't say anything about consumer welfare. It doesn't matter if the price goes up, down, sideways. What matters is illegal anticompetitive actions.