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The problem, any local poster retailers, is the company can sell at substantially lower My than my Trt. _ _ Clepkena. owner of CarryOn Comics and Books, says the uni, versity allows the company on compu- during the prime poster tolling ar and undercuts local business, dun meeting sales who M tthe year. _ "T1mr'te Idling at such inert.L dibly low prices that students think we are ripping them off whoa they see our prices and that deal our reputation for the rest of lu year.” A "tdauisitditeumidberxxirr timrterro-uhmnothertnyi: Kenn Athhehy Chronicle Staff The University of Waterloo is under fire from local businesses who say an outside company allowed to sell its products on ceyru' in ruining their business. "We not competition we fear, if. unfair competition. I'm bothered by the exclusivity of the contract the university has given them because it doesn't allow any of III to present our Chet in a similar way, and m bothered that this willfully is a wholesal- erl not a re . er." - _ Clepkene says he and other mailer: want the opportunity to tell on campus. Last year. he wrote the university for pennie- im. He never received an aw 1reoutRttepeeineurge Merchants slam UW for allowing Toronto poster company on campus II would mutt" lime UNFAIB COMPETITION? &-qttNiichi-nrturotiee Aerniei11+rbeiim+sdiianidata. titretn1-igrstrortt-dtiidren to1rrrthair-thettotaat-baee. "rue-tmoi-tretains" With» not: 1agt year. 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"Almat 80 per cent of their revenue comes from public funds intheformoftax-sthetaxes ipay are supporting the unwersr ty which, in turn, is allowing thus c0PPpy on fHrtpusf' Clepkena, NI and Dwyer took their concerns to Waterloo coun eil, but councillors were unwill ing to get involved The company Disappointed by Council's deer anon, the retailers say they will try again. The next up It to plead their use to the umvemty Jen-ta. Not only do they contribute products. says Clepkens. but an es they pay also support the university as a public Institution The effect, he says. is psymg to be undercut.