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Steve Wood, Revisiting the US food retail consolidation wave: regulation, market power and spatial outcomes, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 13, Issue 2, March 2013, Pages 299–326, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs047
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Abstract
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.