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Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem

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From: David Kaye
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:25
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SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

>I was surprised to see a Yum Foods outlet selling Coke products. I 
>thought that they were required to sell only Pepsi, but apparently at 
>least some franchisees have some leeway. It was either in a mall or an 
>airport. Maybe the mall or airport had its own exclusivity arrangement.

That's interesting.  I do know that a Supreme Court ruling prevented 
franchisors to limit the sourcing of products.  The case in point was that 
McDonald's wanted to require meat to be bought only from a specific meat 
supplier.  To the court, meat was meat and as long as it met McDonald's specs, 
the franchisee could buy it anywhere.  

Yum has mostly company-owned outlets, but they do have a number of 
franchisees, who I assume can source to whomever as long as the product meets 
Yum's specs.
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From: sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com (David Kaye)
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Subject: Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for
 the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
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