...Maria Anna Pagnanelli; Maria D'Agostini; Carlo Russo; Marcello Sansone Purpose In evolving market dynamics, the growing demand for alternative proteins currently characterises the grocery market, where retailers have a vital role in shaping consumer preferences and influencing market dynamics...

...Ben Perkins Reviews the state of the retail grocery market in Europe in 2001. Comments that although the food retailing sector is falling as a percentage of overall retail sales across Europe, this is because of greater amounts of disposable income being spent on non‐essential services and goods...

...‐based food system and the growth of advanced, wealthy industrial economies in which consumption has clearly been divorced from production in all industries due to economic specialization. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Food Supply chain Retailing Grocery Channel relations Since its...

... that it would be a winning strategy, then the big players decided how big they wanted to be, who they wanted to acquire” (emphasis added). Food Retailing Grocery Supermarkets Supply chain Dairy industry Over the last 40 years, the agro/food system in the USA, and in much of the rest...

..., on retail conduct. It focuses on the experience of the Republic of Ireland, which has had a ban on below‐cost selling of certain grocery products since 1988. OLS regression of quarterly data on a basket of 13 grocery product categories over the period 1984‐1994 identifies legislation as a key influence...

...Peter Jones; Colin Clarke‐Hill; David Hillier; Peter Shears This market for alcoholic drinks sold for home consumption has become increasingly dominated by the multiple grocery chains at the expense of small specialist off‐licences. However, one specialist company, Bargain Booze, which specialises...

... that explain retail evolution and changes, the most relevant are as follows. Grocery Consumer behaviour Spain Supermarkets complexity: many internal and external variables influence behaviour; changes in the product/commercial format’s life cycle; variations according to product...

..., particularly when brand loyalty is at stake. So customers will switch to other stores to obtain their preferred brands if their favourite supermarket or store is out of stock (Verbeke et al., 1997). Grocery Retailing Stores Image Consumer behaviour Changes in our natural and social...