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How about if you go to purchase a house, but one of the HoA agreements is that you only shop at Kroger.


And the only roads in and out of your neighborhood leads directly to a Kroger. And there's barbed wire fencing surrounding your neighborhood. Meanwhile, deliveries being made to Kroger from distributors may only use Kroger-branded trucks, which cost at least 20% more. Oh, and that truck may only be serviced by Kroger-approved mechanics. Those mechanics can only buy parts from Kroger. Any totaled truck can't be parted out by mechanics and MUST be recertified by Kroger.


basically this is what Walmart did to countless towns in the US by putting all the mom and pop stores out of business

not saying it's good (in fact, it's much worse than what Apple is doing), but no one contested its legality




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