ResearchBuzz: FirehoseNorth Carolina State University: Study Finds Opening ‘Off-Price’ Stores Increases Online Shopping for High-End Retailers. “A new study finds that when high-end retailers open ‘off-price’ stores, which sell less expensive merchandise, it reduces customer spending at their flagship ‘full-line’ stores – but increases customer spending at their online stores.”
Alexander J. Stein(2/2) The Reagan administration stopped enforcing the #RobinsonPatman Act, which banned price discrimination & made it illegal for #retailers to demand preferential deals. #RetailChains could scale up & leverage their size, while independent retailers died off: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/
