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lower cost for consumers, making sure that mom and pop shops are operating at a level playing field against the big national chains and listen a lot is at stake here, american spent almost 90 billion on alcohol last year alone. we know that the cost of living is very high right now. biden officials are eager to show that you're taking action to lower costs and that i'm taking action to confront dominant companies. >> but this lawsuit kick could be risky because it would force regulators to dust off a law that has rarely been used in decades. >> this is the robinson-patman act as you know, from 1930, during the great depression and it bans price discovery termination specifically says that suppliers, they can't offer deeper discounts to the big national chains and they do to the local shops. >> but this is highly controversial because it's rarely been enforced. >> it has, hasn't been used since 2000, only one other time since the late 1980s, but