The issue of supermarket chain power in wholesale markets has been around at least since the 1930’s when A&P surfaced as a nationwide chain with centralized buying (Adelman, 1959). Curiously those that complained the loudest were not firms that sold to supermarkets. Small retailers, who were...

This article assesses the impact of retailer own-labeled products on manufacturer brand prices, profitability, and consumer welfare. Using chain-level retail scanner data from Boston's white fluid milk market the analysis estimates a random coefficients logit demand model employing a...

Store brands are thought to improve a retailer's position relative to leading brand manufacturers and to reduce retail prices. Steiner (2004) offers a characterization of typical industry structures by considering the relationship between interbrand and intrabrand elasticities. We estimate a...