Retail price dynamics and retailer heterogeneity: UK evidence

We examine retailer heterogeneity in price adjustment in UK supermarkets. Considerable variation in the price change frequency of identically bar-coded products among retail chains is found. Decomposition analysis suggests that price adjustment is evenly split between sales and reference prices with substantive variation across retailers.

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