Journal
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 299-326Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbs047
Keywords
Economic geography; retailing; regulation; divestiture; antitrust; L81; D81; D92; F21
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This article revisits Neil Wrigley's influential research that explored the corporate restructuring of the US food retail sector, which was characterized by a focus on the spatial implications of merger activity, market concentration and competition regulation. It assesses the importance of this scholarship in a contemporary context, tracking these competitive and regulatory trends from a decade ago to the present. This is of particular interest given the continued concentration of market power and related competitive shake-out; the innovative experimentation with new store formats; anti-trust rulings concerning market definition by the Federal Trade Commission and the challenges faced by European entrants to the market.
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