How odd. Those cases and cases of cheap ass Canadian Labatt Blue selling in upstate NY gas stations and grocery stores for about half of the price we pay up here have become an issue in the global InBev deal for A-B:
The Justice Department said Friday it will have to sell the U.S. Labatt operations because the deal could mean higher beer prices for beer in the New York cities of Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse. In those cities, Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser brands and InBev's Labatt brands are the two biggest-selling beer lines, which means the merged company would be competing with itself.
The infiltration of Blue into upstate is quite a marvel and, if I was dedicated to the stuff, worth crossing the border for. But I had no idea that protecting the market in these cities was worth legal intervention.