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This paper presents empirical evidence that endogenous fixed costs play a central role in determining the equilibrium structure of the retail food industry. Using the framework developed in Sutton [Sutton, J. (1991). Sunk Cost and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration (MIT Press, Cambridge).], I construct a structural model of retail competition in...

The phenomenal growth of the fairtrade industry has attracted increased research interest but little is known as to what marketing factors drive fairtrade retail sales. This gap has profound implications for fairtrade marketing research and the future of the fairtrade industry. To provide a more robust and objective insight this paper draws on the analysis of supermarket loyalty card dataset of...

Empirical studies to date have delivered mixed conclusions on the question of whether the widely acclaimed assertions of lower electronic retail (e-tail) prices are indeed true, and to what extent these benefits are able to transcend the virtual world by impacting retail prices. One explanation for the mixed conclusions is that they provide only a discrete snapshot of a limited segment of the m...

Farm milk prices tend to be volatile. Dairy farmers, industry pundits, and policymakers further tend to react to price volatility with alarm. One point of concern is the response of retail prices. This study investigates farm-to-retail price transmission in the 2000s for whole milk and cheddar cheese. Results show that price shocks at the farm gate are transmitted with delay and asymmetry to re...

preview 2 Living labs fostering innovations in the retail industry: A network perspective

With the pandemic grabbing up places all over world, decline in businesses, macro and micro, is inevitable. Among these businesses retail sector which plays an important role for any economy. Retail covers basic necessities that a human being needs. 
 dependent on many factors drive sales of company most vital one customer retention. eruption technology it highly to underscore importance s...

Introduction: India started its Retail Journey since ancient time. In ancient India there was a concept of weekly HAAT, where all the buyers & sellers gather in a big market for bartering. It takes a pretty long times to & step to shape the modern retail. In between these two concepts (i.e. between ancient retail concept & the modern one there exist modern kirana/ mom and pop shops or Baniya ki...

This research aims to produce a strategic group map of the retail industry in Indonesia at PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk. A is collection companies an with similarities strategy implementation, scope operations, and resources they use win competition. The method used case study method, namely series scientific activities carried out detail depth reveal event activity entity order gain in-depth ...