Pirate Joe’s, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe’s Products, Shuts Down

Re:Pirate Joe’s, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe’s Produc... by FireBeyond on Friday June 09, 2017 @02:39PM (#14523424)

"Don't you have a legal right to create exclusive distribution"

Fairly clearly, under law, no. Well, kinda: You have the right to decide who you will sell to, entirely.

You have no right to prevent things under the first sale doctrine.

(Some of the attempts to limit this include printing on packaging 'not for resale' as an attempt to EULA the physical product).

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Re:Pirate Joe’s, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe’s Produc... by jandrese on Friday June 09, 2017 @02:42PM (#14523453)

IIRC the "not for resale" markings are only relevant if the package is missing mandatory information like the nutrition label. In practice it only works to stop people who buy a bulk bag of a product and then break it apart and try to resell the individual items.

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Re:Pirate Joe’s, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe’s Produc... by ams6110 on Friday June 09, 2017 @04:59PM (#14524528)

You have the right to decide who you will sell to, entirely.

Not entirely, see recent cases of bakers who didn't want to sell cakes for gay weddings.

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Re:Pirate Joe’s, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe’s Produc... by FireBeyond on Friday June 09, 2017 @06:58PM (#14525208)

True, "within the realm of current (anti-) discrimination law".

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