Tag: Grocery Retail Market
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...
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...
South Africa: Big supermarkets told to drop exclusivity clauses
South Africa’s biggest supermarket chains could be forced to drop exclusivity clauses in shopping mall leases if they fail to do so voluntarily, the...
