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Zone Pricing in Retail Oligopoly
Multi-store retailers have the ability to offer different prices based on the geography of their stores. They sometimes do, but often only to a limited extent. This is observed in home improvement retailing, where the large retail chains charge different prices nationally but opt not to set prices store-by-store or even by market. Instead, prices are assigned to zones spanning several markets t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2925863