In the late 1970s, antitrust regulators and courts adopted the so-called consumer-welfare standard, which held that the proper benchmark of whether a company had gotten too big or whether a merger ...

The first Walmart store opened in 1962 and it was the No. 1 retailer in the US by 1990. ... Since the 1970s, Walmart has followed its "every day low prices" strategy, or EDLP, ...

In the late 1970s, antitrust regulators and courts adopted the so-called consumer-welfare standard, which held that the proper benchmark of whether a company had gotten too big or whether a merger ...