Blogs | Unfair Competition

If you’re in business, chances are you’ve experienced unfair marketing tactics by one or more of your competitors. Such tactics may include false or misleading advertising or representations concerning the nature or quality of the competitor’s products or services. Or, they may consist of false or misleading statements about what you sell.
You need not stand by while your competition engages in such underhanded tactics.

In In re: Wholesale Grocery Products Antitrust Litigation, No. 13-1297 (May 21, 2014), the Eighth Circuit allowed an antitrust case brought by a small town, family owned grocery store in Iowa, D&G, Inc.,^[1] to continue against the nation’s two largest wholesale distributors, SuperValu, Inc. and C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., finding disputed facts prevented summary judgment.