Legal Question in Employment Law in Georgia

Vendor Rights

My spouse is a self employed distributor of snack cakes. He has different stores he puts these cakes into. Do these vendors have any rights? For example: A very large national discount retail chain request that he builds a display and fills it up with cake. Once he builds this display and orders cake to keep it filled, for no reason they pull the display and ask him to remove it. They tell him it was because their boss told them to do this. This large supercenter does this all the time. Can they legally do this and does my husband as the vendor, have any rights? The company he works for will not back their distributors, as this is a large company for them. Do you know of a hot line or somewhere he can call to report this type of abuse?


Asked on 9/04/07, 2:32 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Scott Riddle Law Office of Scott B. Riddle, LLC

Re: Vendor Rights

We do not know the terms of any agreements or contracts. On what basis would you believe that the stores/retails are any under any obligation whatsoever to maintain a display, or even do business with your husband? It is not "illegal" or "abuse" merely because another party does not run their business the way someone else wants them to. Presumably, your husband is also free to run his business as he sees fit, and not do business with the stores who do not do business as he likes.

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Answered on 9/04/07, 2:38 pm


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