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bell-cot on March 15, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: FTC and DOJ want to free McDonald's ice cream mach...

If Taylor buy $X machines back for $X plus agonizing financial penalties, then figures they'll recover the losses selling $2X machines...$4X machines - then the SEC will be expecting "Taylor may not be a viable or sustainable business" disclosures in Taylor's next quarterly filing. If there is one - major creditors and investors could move first.

JumpCrisscross on March 15, 2024 [–]

> then figures they'll recover the losses selling $2X machines...$4X machines

Yes, this is what having a captive market means.

The problem is the franchise agreement. Shoehorning this into a lemon-law framework doesn’t work.

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