This paper examines the relationship of 1987 retail grocery prices to supermarket sales concentration across 95 U.S. metropolitan areas. The regression model incorporates a large number of population, retail-cost, and retail competition factors and separate prices by type of grocery item. We...

Sales of fresh food products are a predominant feature in retail pricing around the world. Price-based sales offer significant price cuts in products for a limited time and are the most popular form of promotional sales in Europe. From a consumer perspective, it is of interest to determine...

This empirical paper analyzes the existence (and persistence) of price dispersion in the Spanish food retail market as well as the extent to which search costs and vertical product differentiation contribute to explain that price dispersion. Our data set comprises six months of daily prices from...

Studies examining pricing outcomes in the food retail industry are complicated both by the multiproduct nature of transactions and by the presence of highly concentrated food processing and retailing industries that mediate between relatively competitive farm product markets and the consumer...