Tag: Grocery
UK Supermarket Ocado May Be Facing Amazon Takeover
The shares of Ocado Group, a British online grocer, experienced a significant increase after reports from The Times suggested potential interest from multiple American...
Getir Buys Grocery Rival Gorillas For $1.2B
Turkish delivery company Getir has bought German rival Gorillas in a deal worth $1.2 billion that will merge two of the remaining companies in...
Antitrust Chronicle® – Retail Grocery Sector
Dear Readers,
Few sectors are as vital to modern life as the grocery industry. Napoleon famously derided the United Kingdom as a “nation of shopkeepers.”...
Store Format and Buyer Power in Grocery Retail Competition
Competition in grocery retail is not only about the pricing, quantity, and variety of goods offered for sale to consumers. Importantly, it also has...
The Competitive Assessment of Mergers in Retail Grocery Markets: A Basket...
This paper shows that competition authorities in Europe have adopted very different approaches to assess the competitive effect of horizontal mergers on retail grocery...
Trends in Consumer Shopping Behavior and their Implications for Retail Grocery...
Retail grocery mergers in the United States most often have been evaluated by the FTC. Through those investigations and litigations, FTC staff economists and...
Pass-Through and Competition in the Food Sector: New Data, New Insights,...
Current pressures on food supply chains are associated with higher food prices but the extent of the pass-through to consumers will depend on how...
Competition Issues in UK Grocery Retailing
Over the past 20 years, grocery retailing has probably been the sector most investigated by the UK competition authorities. Given that three quarters of...
Hub-and-spoke Cases in the Portuguese Grocery Sector
Resale price maintenance (“RPM”) restrictions may play an instrumental role in implementing collusive agreements downstream, in a hub-and-spoke arrangement. This is highlighted in two...
The NZCC Market Study into Retail Grocery
The New Zealand Commerce Commission is currently undertaking its market study into the retail groceries sector. New Zealand has one of the most concentrated...