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...same time, Benjamin W. Corey of the Hi Fi Lab disclosed that a third distributor refused to sell him records yesterday. Mutual Distributors, which handle London records, blamed stoppage on "A moral duty to the Harvard Square merchants...
...same time, Benjamin W. Corey '41, owner of the Hi Fi Lab, indicated that he would begin anti-trust suits in the near future against two large record distributors for an alleged "freeze-out." Corey charged that both Allied Appliances, the Columbia distributor, and PCA Victor were refusing to sell him records because "the Square is overcrowded." Hi Fi entered the record field just before the beginning of the new year...
...three other Square record shops are already giving discounts ranging from 20 to 50 percent. McKenna's, which began giving a 20 percent discount the first of the month, attributed the cut in prices on similar cuts by Sam Goody of New York, the country's largest LP distributor. The effects of Goody's undercutting made the reduction necessary, according to one of the officials of McKenna. Harvard Square is only one of many areas that has been hit by the price...
...squeezing them out of business. Wood went to work to correct this. He encouraged small companies to become Sears suppliers. "Squeeze a producer," says General Wood, "and he'll take it out on the product. But help him . . . and the result is not only advantageous to the distributor but advantageous to the most important person in the picture, the consumer...
Through a Boston distributor the committee found out that one Cambridge retailer held such a license. He is, at present, vacationing in Florida and cannot be contacted, but the distributor believes that he will be glad to sell the beer...