Monopolistic Competition Of The Retail Industry A Look...

Monopolistic Competition in the Retail Industry: A Look at Fast Food From an economic perspective, the retail industry can be identified as having four distinct forms of competition: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. This paper shall examine those constructs briefly, and then discuss in depth, the concept of monopolistic competition in the retail industry, using fast food as an example. There are really limited examples of perfect or pure competition, whereby there is no one supplier big enough to have market power sufficient to set pricing for a product that everyone is selling. By way of example, one might look to a wholesale fish auction and the dozens of fishermen that present the same catch for auction at market each weekday morning. While some fish may vary as to grade, like Ahi or Yellowfin tuna, there is more likely than not, no one fisherman who can drive the market price for tuna on any given day. 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