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Retail power, competition and local consumer choice in the UK grocery sector

Ian Clarke (University of Durham Business School, Durham, UK)

European Journal of Marketing

ISSN: 0309-0566

Article publication date: 1 September 2000

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Abstract

Focuses on the changing nature of retail competition and the way it affects local consumer choice in the UK grocery sector. Integrates relevant literature on the economic aspects of competition with work on the changing corporate geographies of retailers. Links vertical market power (relative to suppliers) and multiple retailers’ ability to compete horizontally (relative to other retailers) in a given trading locality, and argues that this interaction has fundamentally altered the nature of competition. The increase in retail power that has resulted has served to redefine local consumer choice. Smaller retailers are disadvantaged by this shift because it has directly affected the store and product choices of consumer groups depending on their relative mobility. Argues for empirical work to ground and validate these assertions.

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Clarke, I. (2000), "Retail power, competition and local consumer choice in the UK grocery sector", European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 34 No. 8, pp. 975-1002. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090560010331469

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