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cyberaxyesterday at 3:31 AM3 repliesview on HN

Costco gets to sidestep a lot of regulations because they technically are a private club with paid membership. The US anti-monopoly laws are also unusually weak.

In other countries, selling a $7 chicken if it's subsidized by the sale of other goods can indeed be illegal.


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hrimfaxiyesterday at 3:44 AM

Do you have some countries in mind where that's illegal?

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MichaelZuoyesterday at 10:54 PM

If you now acknowledge there is a carve out… couldn’t there be two carve outs? Or more?

It seems like you havent thought this through at all.