Albertsons eliminates rural grocers with land usage constraints
Among the very best parts of antitrust trials is just how much info enters the general public domain about corporations that normally keep information about their market personal. The Kroger-Albertsons grocery store merger case is no various. One fascinating nugget is that grocery store executives see rural markets as especially simple to monopolize, since there is frequently simply one shop. They even have a name, "no-comp[etition] or low-comp[etition] zones," according to one executive on the stand.Obviously that makes good sense, we 'd anticipate companies to take full advantage of earnings where they can. One may be lured to state, well, there are some towns that can't support more than one shop. Which may be real, other than that there are numerous examples of grocery store chains uti...