Food consumers have been engaging in collective action to combat food retail concentration
for many years. As modern supermarkets gain in size and power, the activity of food …

Food cooperatives have become more popular among consumers during the past decade.
Although consumers can organize cooperatives for several reasons, economic factors may …

Consumer cooperatives are firms owned by their customers. Although their organizational
form should commit these firms not to exploit their market power, in practice, weak …

This article analyses the efficiency of current market regulations and market structure in
Norwegian agriculture. Based on their potential to coordinate farmers' supplies, large …

Focusing on consumer co-operatives, I test the conventional economic worldview that
relative price is a main determinants of consumer behaviour using survey instruments in a …

An increasing market concentration in food retailing has generated concerns about the
market power of retailers towards consumers and input suppliers. This is especially true for …

Co-operatives play a major role in the agricultural and food industry. Co-operatives, by their
very nature, are producer-oriented firms. As market conditions for food products have …

Swedish food prices have been an issue many years resulting in a number of studies by the
Swedish Competition Authority. This paper sheds new light on the competitive situation by …

This paper considers the performance of an important player in the UK retail market-the Co-
operative societies. We argue that the fragmented nature of the UK Consumer Co-operative …

We investigate the empirical relationship between product market competition and prices in
the retail grocery sector in the Euro area. The study uses micro-data from ACNielsen on …