Market Reach for Retail Services

The Swedish Food Retail Market

The Swedish food retail market contains of three major actors, ICA, KF and Axfood, all in all dominating 75 percent of the total market shares. The scant number of retailing actors indicates that the Swedish food retail market is a highly concentrated oligopoly, which as a fact has given rise to definite discussions and argumentations concerning the market situation. But is the food retail mark...

Chapter 5 - Retail Market Strategy

Synopsis: The Tractor Supply Company case introduces students to a unique retailing story. By recognizing a target market with unique needs, TSC repositioned its traditional tractorparts business into a specialty retailer serving a variety of needs for consumers entertaining their interests in part-time farming and ranching. This growing consumer segment has been TSC’s focus for the past 15 yea...

The market for dental services.

Modelling spatial market dynamics with retail agents

The power of agent-based modelling (ABM), when integrated with other AI-based and conventional approaches, can be greatly enhanced. The resulting hybrid systems offer a flexible modelling environment that exploits the benefits of the component methods. In particular, the ABM paradigm can be used to explore and understand systems that are governed by complex, non-linear relationships and self-or...

Consumer Search and Retail Market Structure

This paper proposes a framework for studying how consumer search and multiproduct purchase a¤ect retail market structure. To provide one-stop shopping convenience and attract more consumers, single-product shops supplying di¤erent products can merge to form a multiproduct retailer. The merger, however, also changes the market structure and a¤ects price competition. When the search friction is n...