-price target’s stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition with the acquirer’s stores, the latter … offerings in order to avoid cannibalization and lessen local competition. Further, we show that other dimensions of … heterogeneity, such as market concentration, whether a divestiture was imposed by the Dutch competition authority, and the re …

-price target’s stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition with the acquirer's stores, the latter … offerings in order to avoid cannibalization and lessen local competition. Further, we show that other dimensions of … heterogeneity, such as market concentration, whether a divestiture was imposed by the Dutch competition authority, and the re …

We study the grocery industry in Washington, DC, during the Great Depression using data from the 1929 Census of … between chains and independents in the Washington, DC, grocery market circa 1929 to better understand chains' competitive … supermarket revolution, combination stores were much more likely to survive to 1935 than other grocery formats …