Exploiting Buyer Power: Lessons from the British Grocery Trade
Exploiting Buyer Power: Lessons from the British Grocery Trade
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利用买家力量：英国杂货贸易的经验教训
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2006
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P. Dobson
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与美国一样，英国食品杂货零售业的集中度不断提高，引发了有关多家零售商购买力的问题。在过去几十年中，英国竞争主管机构进行的一些正式调查中，关注的核心问题是，它是否以及如何阻止、限制或扭曲零售和/或生产者一级的竞争，损害公众或消费者利益。这些调查包括垄断和合并委员会在1981年进行的行业调查，1公平贸易办公室在1984年和1999年进行的调查，2以及竞争委员会在2000年进行的调查。2003年，Tesco
As in the United States, increased concentration in grocery retailing in Great Britain has raised issues about the buying power of multiple retailers. Whether, and if so how, it prevents, restricts, or distorts competition at the retail and/or producer level to the public or consumer detriment has been the central aspect of concern in a number of formal investigations by the British competition authorities over the last couple of decades. These include the industry inquiries conducted by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in 1981,1 by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in 1984 and 1999,2 and by the Competition Commission in 2000.3 Retailer buying power has also featured in certain merger cases, most notably the recent Competition Commission inquiry into Safeway and the contemplated mergers with Asda, Wm Morrison, J Sainsbury, and Tesco in 2003.4