Competitive Analysis
“Flanking in a Price War”
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In the early 1980’s there were three major grocery store chains in Quebec, Steinberg (20% market share), Provigo’s (31%), and Metro-Richelieu’s (25%). Between them, they had approximately 76% of the market. Hudon and Deaudelin (IGA) was a distant fourth with approximately 8.5% market share. In recent years, Steinberg had their market share drop dramatically. In ten years, Steinberg had fallen from first to third. Because of this, the president of IGA was concerned that Steinberg would start a price war in order to increase market share. For this reason, IGA decided to engage in a pricing experiment to determine if a separate p
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