Constructing a Balance between Price and Non-Price Competition in British Multiple Food Retailing 1954–64

Bibliographic Data

ID8418264
AuthorsCarlo Morelli (University of Dundee, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume40
Issue2
Pages45-61
Publication date1998-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBusiness History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00076799800000168
OpenAlexW2055652647
LanguageEN
Citations received7

The objective of this article is to examine the transition from atomistic to oligopolistic competition within the British grocery food retailing market. The focus of the article is the period from the end of post-war rationing in 1954 to the passing of the Trading Stamps Act in 1964. It was during this decade that multiple retailers fundamentally altered the nature of competition within the industry. This article maintains that it was this decade that also defined the future pattern of development of firms within the grocery retailing market. However, as the article makes clear, multiple retailers were neither united in their approach, nor entirely voluntary participants in this transformation

Balance (ability · Balance sheet · Business · Competition (biology · Economic growth · Economics · Market economy · Oligopoly · Rationing · Historical Economic and Social Studies

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