§10732. Food and grocery transportation

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a seller of food and grocery products using a uniform zone delivered pricing system to compensate a customer who picks up purchased food and grocery products at the shipping point of the seller if such compensation is available to all customers of the seller on a nondiscriminatory basis and does not exceed the actual cost to the seller of delivery to such customer.

(b) It is the sense of the Congress that any savings accruing to a customer by reason of compensation permitted by subsection (a) of this section should be passed on to the ultimate consumer.

(Added Pub. L. 96–296, §8(a), July 1, 1980, 94 Stat. 798 ; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title IX, §9113, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4535 .)

Amendments

1988-Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–690 struck out at end "The Interstate Commerce Commission shall monitor the extent to which such savings are being passed on and shall report its findings to the Congress not later than one year after the date of enactment of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 and not less often than once a year thereafter. For purposes of this subsection, the Interstate Commerce Commission may exercise its powers to obtain relevant papers, books, documents, and other materials."