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Shelf space payments: The saga continues. For several years, as assiduously reported in these pages, the FTC has been investigation allegations that McCormick Spice Co. has illegally used payments to retail grocers, sometimes called "slotting fees," to fend off competition from competing spice manufacturers. See, for example, FTC:WATCH No. 531, Oct. 25, 1999; 543, April 24, 2000; 555, Nov. 20, 2000; 556, …