Retail chains essentially practice one of two broad strategies in setting prices across their stores. The more straightforward is to set a chain- or country- wide price. Alternatively, managers of retail chains may customize prices to the store level according to local demand and competitive...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a theoretical approach to modeling multiplant firm locations and to apply it to store locations of a major British supermarket chain. Choice of store location is seen as a major weapon in long-run competition between rival groups and the authors focus upon...

This short essay introduces a special issue of The Journal of Industrial Economics on vertical relationships, including both vertical integration and vertical restraints. In the last few years, there has been a resurgence of theoretical and empirical work on vertical relationships, and they are...