Business Economist

Description Working as a Business Economist for the local Independent Grocery Co-Operative (IGCO), you have been asked by the Chair, Arata Takuma, to prepare a report on the impact supermarkets giants are having on privately owned local grocery stores in Southampton. He and his colleagues have read that the supermarket industry is seen as an oligopoly and this allows them to control a substantial percentage of the grocery market and force smaller grocery firms out of business, which of course is having an adverse effect on IGCO members. In this report, Arata and his colleagues would like to know the following: • With examples, define and explain oligopoly and discuss how it differs from other forms of competitive models in economics. • According to the Student Room Web Site (https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2291249) the average student buys the following items from a supermarket:  2 cola 1L  Pack of 20 Sausages  English mustard  2 loaf of bread  Soft Cheese  Strawberry Jam  Beef burgers x 8  Ketchup  Wholemeal (or white) bread rolls x 6  Pack of bacon  Strawberry jelly  3 x Instant chicken noodles  Soy sauce  Stir Fry vegetables  Chicken breast steaks  3 x Canned instant custard  Canned peaches  2 x Canned pineapple  2 x milk 1L (Please substitute where identical products cannot be found) • Using the student shopping list above you have been asked to compare the total cost of shopping if the items were bought from the following stores:  Tesco  Asda  Morrison  Sainsbury  Waitrose  Aldi  Local independent convenient store • From the data, you have collected explain (using economic theory and statistical analysis) the differences, if any, in food prices/total cost of shopping between the different stores. What does this say about the competitiveness and segmentation of the food market? Essential reading: Super markets – Increasing concentration http://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Business_economics/Supermarkets.html United Kingdom – Retail Foods (2016) https://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/Retail%20Foods_London_United%20Kingdom_12-13-2016.pdf Sloman, John (2016) ‘Economics for Business’, (7th ed) ISBN-10: 1292082100 • ISBN-13: 9781292082103 Producing assignment guidelines You are expected to produce your assignment within the following guidelines: • Trebuchet MS 12, 1.5 line spaced (except indented quotations and list of references, which should be singled, spaced). • Page number on the right hand side in the ‘footer’. • You will need to have both a Title page and a Content page. • Add the Word Count after but before the list of References. • Use appropriate headings (which you will list in the contents page).

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